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Street Portraiture

"Spread love." Kathrada Memorial, Cape Town. Kathrada Memorial, Cape Town. Kathrada Memorial, Cape Town. Kathrada Memorial, Cape Town. Kathrada Memorial, Cape Town. "I was born on a small farm in the Karoo but I’ve been here for ten years now. I worked in George for a while, and loved it. I prefer the city actually but I met a boy in Prins Albert. So here I am”. Magda, Laudromat Assistant, Prins Albert. Koos Van Wyk, lifelong rose gardner at the Van Wyksdorp church, and a man of few words. “I was born in District Six. I like to tell people that so they can’t, you know, tune me what-and-what. Grew up in Fishoek and moved to McGregor twelve years ago. I’m trying to sell this place now and move back to Cape Town. My wife died a couple years back so there’s nothing left for me here”. Mike Loy, Antiques Dealer, McGregor. "Kan my coke in die foto ook wees?" Manie, Prins Albert. Munjurul Alam, Bangladeshi immigrant and manager at the Laingsburg Super, Laingsburg. Sonwabile Girl Empowerment Centre, Khayelitsha. Sonwabile Girl Empowerment Centre, Khayelitsha. Fikelela Children's Home, Khayelitsha. Roda feeding her pigeons, Bokaap. Singing a tune, waiting for lunch. Five Cents Dining Hall, Cape Town. Saturday mornings on the porch, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Hill Station is a neighbourhood in Freetown characterised by large wooden houses, erected on high stilts more than a hundred years ago for British colonial administrators. The houses arrived in West Africa flat-packed from Harrods in London and remain standing today, home to Sierra Leonean civil servants and their extended families. Fashion show in the bathroom, Hill Station home portrait, Freetown, Sierra Leone. "Can you take my photo outside, in the sun?" Hill Station home portrait, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Perseverance. Hill Station school portrait, Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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