Fifteen sun-bleached stills from a morning in the inner city Johannesburg neighbourhoods of Newtown and Hillbrow.
Development.
Sundry scrap heap.
High noon/face of a city. A garbageman on Diagonal Street.
Negative space, imprisoned.
Head back/head front/hairstyles. A salon in Little Kinshasa.
Free kick.
The hulking Ponte City Apartments loom over a teenager playing basketball. A modernist Apartheid-era “vertical city”, Ponte now sits abandoned and infested with gang warfare. Plans to convert it into a 54-storey prison were recently scrapped in favour of redevelopment.
Leisure, backwards front.
Construction site social groups.
Supply chain.
Nobodied clothes atop the fire escape.
Handrail to the heavens.
V stride.
Indifferent angles.
Barbed window.
Good to see you back blogging. These are good documents of your eye on South Africa. Saw an Edward Burtinsky exhibition yesterday at White Gallery in Banff and the social effects of this new work of yours is subtle like Burtinsky. Nice job and did I say it’s good to have you back blogging?
You have such an eye for pattern, and irregularities within pattern.
Great photos man. Keep the blog updates comin =D