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Woolworths cafe’s low key make better food than a lot of Johannesburg’s well-to-do restaurants and cafes. Wild.
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I photographed & styled my parents in a few some of my personal wardrobe. This was an excuse to see them as I hadn't in months because of lockdown & Covid-19. I had a great time catching up with them under the auspices of the quoted tweet below. More looks to come.
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Styled my parents in some of my threads a few weeks ago. I hadn't seen them in months & wanted a way to see them again. I feel a sense of urgency to connect with the people I love & make as many memories with them as I can while I can. If nothing else, 2020 taught me that.
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Like most black South Africans, I speak English fluently and better than most caucacious caucasuians, daily. Where is my accolade for doing the bare minimum?
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I'm so incredibly honoured and humbled to be chosen as a winner of the 6th Annual Tokyo International Photography Award. My latest photo series will be exhibited I'm four countries including Tokyo, Japan & New York, USA. I'm really grateful for this journey and all its shown me.
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July [photo dump]
“Making a house, a home (and away)”
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If you're an emerging creative in photography, illustration, design, videography, modelling, dancing, skateboarding or anything I'm missing, reply to this with your work or handle. I'm working on a new project and looking to open up the opportunity to those unseen and unheard.
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@MajestyRia
Bandcamp is the best app for supporting artists in any case btw. All for collecting vinyls, cd's and even cassette tapes too though, direct to consumer, forces curation rather than mass consumption. We are musically inundated, commodified & now people see music as 'free'.
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@CptnClout
@NwiseWise
They said less attractive not unattractive though lol. If you 'ugly' your time is up.
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I'm a self-taught photographer from T(h)embisa, South Africa. The camera has been a wonderful accident that stumbled into my life & helped me meet many people I call friends, go places I would have never touched & see things I couldn't have imagined. Happy World Photography Day.
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It costs nothing to congratulate your peers when they do well and achieve their dreams. "Free yourself of malicious bitterness and envy." You'll be happier. You'll be better not bitter for it, I promise.
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You will lose some people on the way to finding your voice, lose the people not your voice.
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CROCS capsule by Wanda Lephoto ® I recently photographed. All proceeds from sales will go to charity.
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Spirituality is the most advanced technology we have available to us.
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Portraits of Afropunk.
December 31, 2019
Johannesburg, South Africa.
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The feeling when the incomparable Skateboard P
@Pharrell
recognizes the work you did with your friend & collaborator
@Lunga_Ntila
.
'Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket' rings true since the first time I heard it.
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After some waiting and anticipating,
the Prouvé dinging chairs have arrived.
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Ketu channeling Italian mobsters photographed with XP200 film in Alexandra, South Africa.
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You go through life doing so much alone that you forget what help looks like & how to accept it.
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You have to hold onto a certain sense of naivety to be able to love.
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Sometimes I meet strangers and take photographs of them. This is CJ in Bushwick. We had coffee and donuts, talking about life, love and our dreams.
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Meditate deeply about what it is you want & more importantly, why it is you want it. We often live in comparison to others, ticking boxes off on a checklist of ambitions & goals that aren't even our own. The price you ultimately pay is the amount of life sacrificed to achieve it.
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I want to talk about how as black writers, fine artists & creatives of all kinds, to secure work you often have to have a public profile, social capital, thousands of followers at least. Meanwhile back at the ranch our white counterparts can have little or nothing in that regard.
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Hardwork remains one of the most overrated concepts known to humankind.
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Reaching your goals hits different.
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Amidst the business of busyness I took a moment to reflect, a quick before and after of my home. WIP.
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A good burger done right. Congrats again
@MapsMaponyane
. This is my new favourite burger; 'New Yolk' and right before I head to New York.
Also good to see the hnagung geezers
@shazlns
&
@2leestark
. The itis might have us all right now.
Check out Buns Out ASAP!
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Some of my best work has come from some of my worst days.
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I decided.
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Last night I premiered a new fashion film I wrote, shot and directed with Dear Ribane. It was the kind of project that reminded me I can do anything I want as an artist, not what people want me to do. I'm grateful and can't wait to share this new body of work with you.
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While I'm proud of my brother Austin for being deservingly chosen to be of this, it's concerning that in a country predominantly black with countless talent there's an overwhelming representation of white people. Not enough black, femme or queer people on this 'creatives' roster.
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“As much as creativity saved me, community made me. That's why I feel an obligation to be a brother, a friend and a collaborator to those I see coming next.”
Join Forces.
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At 25 or any other age remember that your life is your journey, no one elses. Don't let the performance of 'success' & other people's definitions of what that looks like, what it means interrupt your process. Mistake will happen, learn from them. That's all. Move at our own pace.
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Seeing the girl you thought was girlfriend material tweeting
#wastehistime2016
& now you're like, we just lost...
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This isn't a 'moment'. You don't get to marginalise a group of people then lay claim to their work with bare minimum performative faux populist platitudes for clout. Give all those black photographers a real physical Vogue cover. Then do it for the next 126 years. The we'll talk.
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An icon whose images haunted me, an artist who inspired me and an observer who captured a generation and intrigued many to follow with his awe inspiring body of work.
Thank you for your contribution. Rest in peace Santu Mofokeng.
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As black artists & creatives I feel we have to create our own platforms, publications & institutions for us. We've been taught that we need to aspire to white owned bastions for validation. We celebrate being "the first" or the "the only" like it's an accomplishment, it isn't...
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You ever just wake up with a heart overflowing with a deep sense of gratitude? It's absolutely overwhelming in the best way possible.
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I don't take 'constructive' criticism from anyone who hasn't constructed anything in their lives.
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Thank you
@vogueitalia
for selecting this image for their Photo Of The Day feature.
It's been humbling to have the work I did with
@FacultyPress
,
@_ThebeMagugu_
and
@amyzamaa
feature in Vogue Italia Magazine: Vogue Talents and now featured on their website.
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The more you research something you do, if you're lucky it's also something you love, the more in awe you become of it all. You realise how small you are, there is no room for ego. All you can hope is to make some small contribution to it, one that will outlast your mortal coil.
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Kingdom's cinematography is just spectral in how they haunt you, here are a few of my favourite shots from season 2. But honestly, to borrow a phrase, every frame is a painting. South Korean cinema really did not come to play.
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Instagram Lives are like the DSTV bouquet, so many options but there's absolutely nothing to watch.
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December [Photo dump]
“Don’t look back unless it’s a good view”
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What Beyoncé has been doing & continues to do to showcase black talent, African & diasporic is truly commendable. Say what you will about the woman but she is a uniquely undeniable powerhouse we're privelaged to witness in our lifetime. This will not be repeated ever again.
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[PHOTOS ] Prime Obsession Feat. Keneilwe Mothoa & Shelley Mokoena.
More images at
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Tanya van der Westhuizen at it again.
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If you had told me when I first picked up a camera 10 years ago that I would wake up an official
@SonyAlpha
ambassador, I wouldn't have believed it. Going live at 6pm SAST to launch the 'a7C' & 'a7Siii' with live demos, QnA & exclusive content.
Register:
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I had the pleasure of collaborating with
@vsco
again on the release of their new KC25 filter inspired by Kodachrome.
This is my featured image.
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I’m on a go-slow after this project;
long walks, slow kisses, home cooked meals, Sunday swims, crispy white wines, sultry music, long naps & doing nothing all while losing track of which day of the week it might be.
What is life of it isn’t for living, afterall?
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The internet, although not free, is a far more accessible tool for learning than a lot of us realise. I learned how to photograph, film, edit, use a number of programmes to craft my ideas for a fraction of what higher learning would of cost. Whatever your passion, use this tool!
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I asked artist
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to meet me in a park in Pretoria with some of her mirror artworks and styled her, took some photographs for posterity and summarily departed.
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I look at how caterpillars become butterflies to remember how growth transforms, at a cost. It's often painful, challenging & uncomfortable. Perhaps even ugly. Still, it's an opportunity to become more than you were & currently are. You were worthy all along.
I'm going to fly.
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"So pleeease, Ningangdini, ngine inhliziyo encane, Ngidineka fast! Quick in a hurry! " - 2019 Motto.
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Don't forget to dream, be unreasonable about your dreams even if they have been deferred (for now).
If you are alive, you can still dream, you can still begin again to chase them unapologetically.
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When you realise how often it’s your ego that’s hurt and not your feelings, you’ll move through life a lot lighter and brighter.
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South African rappers love to flex. Flaunting their wealth egregiously while simultaneously complaining about the support they don't receive. Walking contradictions, it's pathetic. They want the clout without critical thinking, lacking self-awareness, it's frankly exhausting.
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Inky for Dead Style Guide.
A Dead. Presentation:
Creative Direction by
@studiobila
Styling by
@___chosenreject
Modelling by
@inky_h
#pentax645
#Portra400
#120mm
#mediumformat
#kodakfilm
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*Lames in real life.
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Tamara for Adidas Ozweego commissioned by Unlabelled Magazine.
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The creative conundrum: Using what you love to make money, so you can use that money to make what you love.
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I wouldn't say it like this though, many 'real creatives' don't feel in the right mindset to create right now. I don't think your inferrence's particularly fair to those too depressed to be creative now. If you're in good space, great, keep creating but that's your experience.
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