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Sights and Sounds of Cape Town and it\'s environs, South Africa.
A fisherman and a large male fur seal.
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Sights and Sounds of Cape Town and it\'s environs, South Africa.
Women dancing at a bar at the Waterfront in Cape Town.
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The Controversial Rise of the Vuvuzela. FIFA World Cup 2010.
The origins of the two-foot long plastic blowing horn, commonly known as the vuvuzela, remains shrouded in mystery. The general consensus is that it was the Zulu Nazareth Baptist Church, locally known as the Shembe Church (after its founder Isaiah Shembe) who first used the instrument during worship from around 1910. It was not until the 1990’s, when Neil Van Schalckwyk saw the vuvuzela in stadiums while playing professionally at a local club in Cape Town, that he saw a business opportunity and patented the plastic instrument. To date, his company, Masincedane Sport, has sold over 800,000 vuvuzelas - 100,000 of them during the first week of the World Cup. The instrument has proved to be hugely controversial and its loud monotonous drone in stadiums became synonymous with South Africa’s World Cup. There were vociferous calls worldwide to see it banned, but FIFA stood its ground. The World Football Governing Body in the end claimed that a World Cup without vuvuzelas would have attempted to take away the very heart of what made this a distinctively South African football event. Only time will tell if the vuvuzela will become a constant feature at future major football events or indeed even at club football level. But for those who thought they had definitely seen the last of the instrument (with some relief it might be added), it is with some concern to note that in Brazil, where the next World Cup is to be held in 2014, there exists an established variation of the plastic blowing horn known as the Corneta.
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100035
The Beautiful Loser. FIFA World Cup 2010
In much the same way as the central characters in Leonard Cohen’s 1966 classic ‘The Beautiful Loser’ are all united by their sexual obsessions, so it is in football that fans are united by an almost Biblical hysteria towards the Beautiful Game. In following the trials and tribulations of their respective teams, all but one that is ultimately doomed to failure, there is an almost transcendent beauty in their growing pain and frustrations, and ultimate loss. Painted on each face is a picture of fear, bewilderment and complete dejection as their team’s sad and inevitable demise unfolds before their very eyes. It is an almost bizarre sight to observe emotions more akin to conflict zones than to everyday life imprinted deep onto the faces of each fan. But then again as Bill Shankly, the great Liverpool manager of the 60’s and 70’s once said: ‘“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it\'s much more serious than that.” If the angst and passions expressed on many a fan’s face during the South African World Cup is anything to go by, Bill Shankly was spot on.
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100036
Sights and Sounds of Hergeisa, Somaliland.
A trader at the money exchange market in Hergeisa. A tourist is teasingly attempting to grab a bundle of the local currency while the trader looks on not amused. Since 1995, the semi-autonomous state of Somaliland has issued its own currency - the Somaliland Shilling. When 1US$ is worth approximately SOS 7,500, huge bundles of currency have to be traded to make the trade viable.
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100042
Children of Africa Portrait Series - A series of unusual p[ortra
Looking back I have often wondered what it was that made such a strong impression on me the first time I visited Africa as a tourist at the age of 17. Without a doubt the single most powerful memory is that of African children. Radiating and beaming with smiles and energy and shouting out the universal greeting of \'How are You?!\' in an almost chant-like manner. I felt an emerging passion that would see me re-visit the Continent again and again in my work until eventually moving first to Kenya and now to South Africa. Little did I know back then that over a decade later I would of had the honour to work so closely with them, with a variety of high-profile charities and NGO\'s. This is a small cross-section of that work and a tribute to their courage and to their blissful happiness often in the face of such harsh adversity. I have been careful with each picture not to appeal to a sense of pity towards the subjects, something which of course has been overdone and meets these days with an unreceptive audience. I have tried to make the series visually informative about the environment of each child and dynamic and colour-rich. There is also a subtle element of the surreal which in my opinion helps to highlight the unbelievable energy and happiness in the face of hardship which many in the modern Western world find hard to comprehend. I hope to bring a smile to the viewers face but at the same time always convey in each portrait a sense of the compassionate.
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100043
Children of Africa Portrait Series
Looking back I have often wondered what it was that made such a strong impression on me the first time I visited Africa as a tourist at the age of 17. Without a doubt the single most powerful memory is that of African children. Radiating and beaming with smiles and energy and shouting out the universal greeting of \'How are You?!\' in an almost chant-like manner. I felt an emerging passion that would see me re-visit the Continent again and again in my work until eventually moving first to Kenya and now to South Africa. Little did I know back then that over a decade later I would of had the honour to work so closely with them, with a variety of high-profile charities and NGO\'s. This is a small cross-section of that work and a tribute to their courage and to their blissful happiness often in the face of such harsh adversity. I have been careful with each picture not to appeal to a sense of pity towards the subjects, something which of course has been overdone and meets these days with an unreceptive audience. I have tried to make the series visually informative about the environment of each child and dynamic and colour-rich. There is also a subtle element of the surreal which in my opinion helps to highlight the unbelievable energy and happiness in the face of hardship which many in the modern Western world find hard to comprehend. I hope to bring a smile to the viewers face but at the same time always convey in each portrait a sense of the compassionate.
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100044
Children of Africa Portrait Series
Looking back I have often wondered what it was that made such a strong impression on me the first time I visited Africa as a tourist at the age of 17. Without a doubt the single most powerful memory is that of African children. Radiating and beaming with smiles and energy and shouting out the universal greeting of \'How are You?!\' in an almost chant-like manner. I felt an emerging passion that would see me re-visit the Continent again and again in my work until eventually moving first to Kenya and now to South Africa. Little did I know back then that over a decade later I would of had the honour to work so closely with them, with a variety of high-profile charities and NGO\'s. This is a small cross-section of that work and a tribute to their courage and to their blissful happiness often in the face of such harsh adversity. I have been careful with each picture not to appeal to a sense of pity towards the subjects, something which of course has been overdone and meets these days with an unreceptive audience. I have tried to make the series visually informative about the environment of each child and dynamic and colour-rich. There is also a subtle element of the surreal which in my opinion helps to highlight the unbelievable energy and happiness in the face of hardship which many in the modern Western world find hard to comprehend. I hope to bring a smile to the viewers face but at the same time always convey in each portrait a sense of the compassionate.
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100045
Children of Africa Portrait Series
Looking back I have often wondered what it was that made such a strong impression on me the first time I visited Africa as a tourist at the age of 17. Without a doubt the single most powerful memory is that of African children. Radiating and beaming with smiles and energy and shouting out the universal greeting of \'How are You?!\' in an almost chant-like manner. I felt an emerging passion that would see me re-visit the Continent again and again in my work until eventually moving first to Kenya and now to South Africa. Little did I know back then that over a decade later I would of had the honour to work so closely with them, with a variety of high-profile charities and NGO\'s. This is a small cross-section of that work and a tribute to their courage and to their blissful happiness often in the face of such harsh adversity. I have been careful with each picture not to appeal to a sense of pity towards the subjects, something which of course has been overdone and meets these days with an unreceptive audience. I have tried to make the series visually informative about the environment of each child and dynamic and colour-rich. There is also a subtle element of the surreal which in my opinion helps to highlight the unbelievable energy and happiness in the face of hardship which many in the modern Western world find hard to comprehend. I hope to bring a smile to the viewers face but at the same time always convey in each portrait a sense of the compassionate.
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100046
Children of Africa Portrait Series
Looking back I have often wondered what it was that made such a strong impression on me the first time I visited Africa as a tourist at the age of 17. Without a doubt the single most powerful memory is that of African children. Radiating and beaming with smiles and energy and shouting out the universal greeting of \'How are You?!\' in an almost chant-like manner. I felt an emerging passion that would see me re-visit the Continent again and again in my work until eventually moving first to Kenya and now to South Africa. Little did I know back then that over a decade later I would of had the honour to work so closely with them, with a variety of high-profile charities and NGO\'s. This is a small cross-section of that work and a tribute to their courage and to their blissful happiness often in the face of such harsh adversity. I have been careful with each picture not to appeal to a sense of pity towards the subjects, something which of course has been overdone and meets these days with an unreceptive audience. I have tried to make the series visually informative about the environment of each child and dynamic and colour-rich. There is also a subtle element of the surreal which in my opinion helps to highlight the unbelievable energy and happiness in the face of hardship which many in the modern Western world find hard to comprehend. I hope to bring a smile to the viewers face but at the same time always convey in each portrait a sense of the compassionate.
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100047
Children of Africa Portrait Series
Looking back I have often wondered what it was that made such a strong impression on me the first time I visited Africa as a tourist at the age of 17. Without a doubt the single most powerful memory is that of African children. Radiating and beaming with smiles and energy and shouting out the universal greeting of \'How are You?!\' in an almost chant-like manner. I felt an emerging passion that would see me re-visit the Continent again and again in my work until eventually moving first to Kenya and now to South Africa. Little did I know back then that over a decade later I would of had the honour to work so closely with them, with a variety of high-profile charities and NGO\'s. This is a small cross-section of that work and a tribute to their courage and to their blissful happiness often in the face of such harsh adversity. I have been careful with each picture not to appeal to a sense of pity towards the subjects, something which of course has been overdone and meets these days with an unreceptive audience. I have tried to make the series visually informative about the environment of each child and dynamic and colour-rich. There is also a subtle element of the surreal which in my opinion helps to highlight the unbelievable energy and happiness in the face of hardship which many in the modern Western world find hard to comprehend. I hope to bring a smile to the viewers face but at the same time always convey in each portrait a sense of the compassionate.
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100048
Children of Africa Portrait Series
Looking back I have often wondered what it was that made such a strong impression on me the first time I visited Africa as a tourist at the age of 17. Without a doubt the single most powerful memory is that of African children. Radiating and beaming with smiles and energy and shouting out the universal greeting of \'How are You?!\' in an almost chant-like manner. I felt an emerging passion that would see me re-visit the Continent again and again in my work until eventually moving first to Kenya and now to South Africa. Little did I know back then that over a decade later I would of had the honour to work so closely with them, with a variety of high-profile charities and NGO\'s. This is a small cross-section of that work and a tribute to their courage and to their blissful happiness often in the face of such harsh adversity. I have been careful with each picture not to appeal to a sense of pity towards the subjects, something which of course has been overdone and meets these days with an unreceptive audience. I have tried to make the series visually informative about the environment of each child and dynamic and colour-rich. There is also a subtle element of the surreal which in my opinion helps to highlight the unbelievable energy and happiness in the face of hardship which many in the modern Western world find hard to comprehend. I hope to bring a smile to the viewers face but at the same time always convey in each portrait a sense of the compassionate.
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100050
Children of Africa Portrait Series - A series of unusual p[ortra
Looking back I have often wondered what it was that made such a strong impression on me the first time I visited Africa as a tourist at the age of 17. Without a doubt the single most powerful memory is that of African children. Radiating and beaming with smiles and energy and shouting out the universal greeting of \'How are You?!\' in an almost chant-like manner. I felt an emerging passion that would see me re-visit the Continent again and again in my work until eventually moving first to Kenya and now to South Africa. Little did I know back then that over a decade later I would of had the honour to work so closely with them, with a variety of high-profile charities and NGO\'s. This is a small cross-section of that work and a tribute to their courage and to their blissful happiness often in the face of such harsh adversity. I have been careful with each picture not to appeal to a sense of pity towards the subjects, something which of course has been overdone and meets these days with an unreceptive audience. I have tried to make the series visually informative about the environment of each child and dynamic and colour-rich. There is also a subtle element of the surreal which in my opinion helps to highlight the unbelievable energy and happiness in the face of hardship which many in the modern Western world find hard to comprehend. I hope to bring a smile to the viewers face but at the same time always convey in each portrait a sense of the compassionate.
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100051
Children of Africa Portrait Series - A series of unusual p[ortra
Looking back I have often wondered what it was that made such a strong impression on me the first time I visited Africa as a tourist at the age of 17. Without a doubt the single most powerful memory is that of African children. Radiating and beaming with smiles and energy and shouting out the universal greeting of \'How are You?!\' in an almost chant-like manner. I felt an emerging passion that would see me re-visit the Continent again and again in my work until eventually moving first to Kenya and now to South Africa. Little did I know back then that over a decade later I would of had the honour to work so closely with them, with a variety of high-profile charities and NGO\'s. This is a small cross-section of that work and a tribute to their courage and to their blissful happiness often in the face of such harsh adversity. I have been careful with each picture not to appeal to a sense of pity towards the subjects, something which of course has been overdone and meets these days with an unreceptive audience. I have tried to make the series visually informative about the environment of each child and dynamic and colour-rich. There is also a subtle element of the surreal which in my opinion helps to highlight the unbelievable energy and happiness in the face of hardship which many in the modern Western world find hard to comprehend. I hope to bring a smile to the viewers face but at the same time always convey in each portrait a sense of the compassionate.
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100052
The Controversial Rise of the Vuvuzela. FIFA World Cup 2010.
The origins of the two-foot long plastic blowing horn, commonly known as the vuvuzela, remains shrouded in mystery. The general consensus is that it was the Zulu Nazareth Baptist Church, locally known as the Shembe Church (after its founder Isaiah Shembe) who first used the instrument during worship from around 1910. It was not until the 1990’s, when Neil Van Schalckwyk saw the vuvuzela in stadiums while playing professionally at a local club in Cape Town, that he saw a business opportunity and patented the plastic instrument. To date, his company, Masincedane Sport, has sold over 800,000 vuvuzelas - 100,000 of them during the first week of the World Cup. The instrument has proved to be hugely controversial and its loud monotonous drone in stadiums became synonymous with South Africa’s World Cup. There were vociferous calls worldwide to see it banned, but FIFA stood its ground. The World Football Governing Body in the end claimed that a World Cup without vuvuzelas would have attempted to take away the very heart of what made this a distinctively South African football event. Only time will tell if the vuvuzela will become a constant feature at future major football events or indeed even at club football level. But for those who thought they had definitely seen the last of the instrument (with some relief it might be added), it is with some concern to note that in Brazil, where the next World Cup is to be held in 2014, there exists an established variation of the plastic blowing horn known as the Corneta.
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100053
The Controversial Rise of the Vuvuzela. FIFA World Cup 2010.
The origins of the two-foot long plastic blowing horn, commonly known as the vuvuzela, remains shrouded in mystery. The general consensus is that it was the Zulu Nazareth Baptist Church, locally known as the Shembe Church (after its founder Isaiah Shembe) who first used the instrument during worship from around 1910. It was not until the 1990’s, when Neil Van Schalckwyk saw the vuvuzela in stadiums while playing professionally at a local club in Cape Town, that he saw a business opportunity and patented the plastic instrument. To date, his company, Masincedane Sport, has sold over 800,000 vuvuzelas - 100,000 of them during the first week of the World Cup. The instrument has proved to be hugely controversial and its loud monotonous drone in stadiums became synonymous with South Africa’s World Cup. There were vociferous calls worldwide to see it banned, but FIFA stood its ground. The World Football Governing Body in the end claimed that a World Cup without vuvuzelas would have attempted to take away the very heart of what made this a distinctively South African football event. Only time will tell if the vuvuzela will become a constant feature at future major football events or indeed even at club football level. But for those who thought they had definitely seen the last of the instrument (with some relief it might be added), it is with some concern to note that in Brazil, where the next World Cup is to be held in 2014, there exists an established variation of the plastic blowing horn known as the Corneta.
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100054
Children of Africa Portrait Series - A series of unusual p[ortra
Looking back I have often wondered what it was that made such a strong impression on me the first time I visited Africa as a tourist at the age of 17. Without a doubt the single most powerful memory is that of African children. Radiating and beaming with smiles and energy and shouting out the universal greeting of \'How are You?!\' in an almost chant-like manner. I felt an emerging passion that would see me re-visit the Continent again and again in my work until eventually moving first to Kenya and now to South Africa. Little did I know back then that over a decade later I would of had the honour to work so closely with them, with a variety of high-profile charities and NGO\'s. This is a small cross-section of that work and a tribute to their courage and to their blissful happiness often in the face of such harsh adversity. I have been careful with each picture not to appeal to a sense of pity towards the subjects, something which of course has been overdone and meets these days with an unreceptive audience. I have tried to make the series visually informative about the environment of each child and dynamic and colour-rich. There is also a subtle element of the surreal which in my opinion helps to highlight the unbelievable energy and happiness in the face of hardship which many in the modern Western world find hard to comprehend. I hope to bring a smile to the viewers face but at the same time always convey in each portrait a sense of the compassionate.
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100055
The Controversial Rise of the Vuvuzela. FIFA World Cup 2010.
The origins of the two-foot long plastic blowing horn, commonly known as the vuvuzela, remains shrouded in mystery. The general consensus is that it was the Zulu Nazareth Baptist Church, locally known as the Shembe Church (after its founder Isaiah Shembe) who first used the instrument during worship from around 1910. It was not until the 1990’s, when Neil Van Schalckwyk saw the vuvuzela in stadiums while playing professionally at a local club in Cape Town, that he saw a business opportunity and patented the plastic instrument. To date, his company, Masincedane Sport, has sold over 800,000 vuvuzelas - 100,000 of them during the first week of the World Cup. The instrument has proved to be hugely controversial and its loud monotonous drone in stadiums became synonymous with South Africa’s World Cup. There were vociferous calls worldwide to see it banned, but FIFA stood its ground. The World Football Governing Body in the end claimed that a World Cup without vuvuzelas would have attempted to take away the very heart of what made this a distinctively South African football event. Only time will tell if the vuvuzela will become a constant feature at future major football events or indeed even at club football level. But for those who thought they had definitely seen the last of the instrument (with some relief it might be added), it is with some concern to note that in Brazil, where the next World Cup is to be held in 2014, there exists an established variation of the plastic blowing horn known as the Corneta.
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100056
Samburu Circumcision Ritual in Northern Kenya.
Often young men will stay up and sing most of the night in the days before their circumcision. There is an air of great anticipation in all the villages and many are overcome with emotion. Many of the songs ask for the circumcisor to come fast to complete the ritual because they can no longer stand to wait for him. Archer\'s Point, Kenya.