kameraad mhambi

When asked by the UK Guardian why he moved back from the west to Johannesburg South Africa, Rian Malan answered: ‘Where you live is boring’. Well Kameraad Mhambi has been following a photographer called Gee-raff on Flickr for some time. He provides visual proof that you can accuse Joburg of many things, but not of [...]

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A delightful video by Britney of Tracy swinging in a dusty backyard. Tracy??

Swing from brittany e on Vimeo.
Yes it turns out those Texans Rose and Olive are actually not Rose and Olive. Oh-live is actually Tracy. I have just about recovered from the shock & betrayal.

Deploy this post far and wide Comrade:

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Some of you who follow this blog regularly may know of my fondness for two Texan photographers. Rose and Olive.
Well Rose and Olive recently blogged about an Israeli photographers – Rachel Papo – whose work amongst other things – document female Israeli soldiers doing their compulsory military service.

Says Papo:
“Each image embodies traces of things [...]

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In 1980, my father took me to a Lions game in Durban. South Africa won that day. But said he, these Lions were nothing like the Lions of 1974.
That group of English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish players never lost a match in South Africa. They played 4 times against the Springboks and a number of [...]

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to the next, originally uploaded by Wildebeast1.

Last weekend I found myself walking through London Fields, Hackney real early at 7am.
I had had two nightmare’s. In one my friends and I were trying to escape from a war zone. The other one was just bizarre. Anyway, I was wide awake, got up and went for [...]

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Rose, Rocks, originally uploaded by tetheredto.

It’s been a while since I blogged about my favourite Flickr photographers, Rose and Olive. They have kept at it for ore than 3 years now, a stream of gorgeous, libidinal and at times downright dirty work. My blog has been all doom and gloom for weeks. I thought it [...]

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Canaan, originally uploaded by von_brandis.

I remember as a small boy I used to walk from Munster, on the KwaZulu-Natal Southern coast to Port Edward, a few kilometers along the coast.
On the way one saw strandhuise. The second beach home many Afrikaners liked to keep for holiday visits. Some are large, many are simple – [...]

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