Category: Faces
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#PhotoEssay | Back When Gqom Was A Dirty Word, And Now…
One of the biggest songs on South African radio in 2016 was Babes Wodumo’s “Wololo”. Deejays previously associated with mainstream ‘house’ music have been riding the wave since, with Euphonik’s atrocious “Tholukuthi Hey” the latest addition. Bhizer’s “Gobisiqolo” is a guaranteed hit at taverns; Busiswa’s inclusion onto it helped notch it up a few drunken…
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The Largest Collection Of Images Ever!
I was joking to self — or to someone, can’t recall — sometime ago about how I’m secretly amassing the largest collection of black contemporary writers like…ever! This picture of writers Ntone Edjabe and Percy Mabandu, taken 20th September 2013, was kinda what sparked it all. I’m still in on the ‘joke’ and shall be publishing more…
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He came to me and asked what I was going to do with the picture I’d just taken, and I responded with a shrug. “Keep it man, keep it”, he said.
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Tagore’s…
…at one point he just stood there, mesmerized in equal parts by the West African pop playing through the speakers and the patrons filling up the venue. With camera in hand, he initiated an intervention through his lens. This is what emerged…
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Reason – September Freestyle
I had almost forgotten about this. Reason released his September freestyle (there’s an August one too). I took this image of his wife, the subject of this song, at the SAMA awards earlier this year. Thank you to Sara for the heads-up.
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Faces 008 – Two Tales
The other morning while waiting in line for a bus, I overheard a conversation between two ladies who hadn’t seen each other in a while. “I’m normally used to seeing you in a blue uniform” said one. “I’d resigned from that job, now I’m going back” replied the other. This lady – the one normally…
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Reanetswe’s mother passed away when he was in the middle of grade 12. They had a house in Soweto, but it didn’t belong to them. He had to search for the rest of his family because “[my mother] hit me so hard when I asked about them that I never asked again” he says in retrospect…
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He said: “I need you to shoot, but don’t kill me.” He was passing by, a man of considerable height, strongly-built like people in the Congo. “The original Congo!” he said, half-berating me for failing to distinguish between his Congo (Brazzaville) and Congo Kinshasa where they speak French with “a different accent.” “Ours is like…
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Phiona Okumu. Words fail me, I dig this woman! This was taken on a trip to Kenya recently.
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Faces 003 – Draztik
This is Draztik, the owner of Unreleased Records/Publishing. Older heads may remember him from his days as part of the crew Cashless Society. He’s a big inspiration to me, for all he’s achieved and for what he’s yet to do. I first met him in 2009 while doing campus radio, and we’ve spoken a couple…
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