This morning, on my way to the coffee shop I passed via Buitenkant street near the District Six Museum. In the cold light of day- men, women and children were sleeping, waking and brushing their teeth on the street. These, of course, are men, women and children who have been marked and named as refugees….
The gang – the cool kids whose only ‘crime’ against a uniform and standardised world is to be themselves unapologetically – to be different. The kids who squarely fit the definition of a cool kid – trendsetters who are worthy of emulation – is what I see when I look at the three faces staring…
I often think a lot about the idea of secondary violence. When we go through a traumatic experience, we come head-on with violence. Then later on, either through recollection or an attempt at healing, we might again face secondary violence that traumatises us even further. But of course, there are all sorts of adages about…
[H]ere is my oath as Editor: I swear to give artists an arena to express their stories and share their photography by providing them a home in print. To all those bold beings painting with light, I hope this finds you… Extract from Editor’s note of the first issue by founder (and Editor), Stephanie Blomkamp…
Moroccan based Israeli designer Artsi Ifrach and Moroccan-Belgian photographer Mous Lamrabat are the creative minds behind Artsimous; the collective with a knack for probing at stereotyped constructs surrounding beauty and fashion. With an air of the avant-garde hanging over their often almost Afro-futurist depictions of a modern and progressive Morocco the creative duo’s projects can…
“The idea of the project was to record the moments when [this] generation behaves absolutely freely and liberated. This is a very short and specific period of time when a person can be what they feel like and behave absolutely liberated without fear of being condemned. Such moments of independence and frankness became the object…
Hailing from the south side of Chicago, creative director and photographer Ibrahem Hasan currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. He only stepped in behind the lens 2-3 years ago, and most recently worked as a senior creative director for Nike. He describes his images as “a blend of fantasy and documentary” and further elaborates that it…
The space where water meets land or water becomes land is an interesting area —a linear abyss for contemplation. For some, this is the point where their relationship to the land is severed while that relationship is reinforced for others. For photographer Andile Bhala, that area is a point of anchorage, a point from which…
Who are we? How do we fit in? And how do we relate to those around us are questions of self that do not always pose linear or even easy to come to answers. The complexities of life and individual experience within a rich ancestral tapestry often result in feeling ungrounded or at times having…
Often, we underestimate our potential impact on the story of how history unfolds across time. Not only do we underestimate our potential impact, but we are also taught to ‘stay in our lanes’. And so teachers teach, artists art and scientists science. Isabel Okoro; the Nigerian-born-Canada-based photographer cum neuroscience and psychology student at the University of…
It takes one astronomical unit—that’s 499 seconds or 8.317 minutes—for the light from the Sun to hit the Earth, for it to warm our skin and for it to trigger, within a landscape of sensitive folds, a congregation of 35 billion to delight. Golden rays transmogrify into golden hues, gold tones of the deepest, most…
Cape Town based analogue photographer Sandra Nagel has quickly gained attention within the coastal creative scene all while staying true to themes she holds close to her heart. Nagel’s work isn’t just about aesthetic. Her projects are meant to challenge you; meant to disrupt outdated schools of thought, thus in a way start conversations without…
