While in Tangier, we stayed at Dar23; a guest-house with a rooftop terrace that overlooked the port.
I will always associate a part of our time there with the scent of cooking fish and laundry baking off in the sun.
This design is my abstraction of the view from the guest-house’s terrace.
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A photograph by Marcelin Flandrin, circa 1910, of musicians in the royal Moroccan harem.
There’s a cross-temporal doppelgangerish echo coming from the woman standing on the right.
Displayed at Maison de la Photographie, Marrakech.
Naeem and I spent last Saturday morning footing in Fietas with Darren Smith and Gus Silber for a photowalk through one of Johannesburg’s most interesting and textured areas.
I used to live in a commune not far from where we were shooting.
Krause street and De la Rey were part of my daily commute and even though I was taken by the decaying facades admired through anti-smash&grab car-window tinting, I just didn’t gather enough fortitude at the time to see these structures up close.
But there’s always guts in numbers.
The four of us started off at the 23rd Street mosque, walked down towards the De la Rey street subway linking Pageview to Fordsburg and ended at the in desuetude Jajbhay Memorial school.
The De la Rey street subway mural is a recent installation and tells the story of a community who were uprooted yet who also celebrated, worshiped and hoped for a time when the spectre of Apartheid would shrink away.
De la Rey street subway mural
De la Rey street subway mural
De la Rey street subway mural
23rd Street Mosque, Fietas
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