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His in-depth photography on other people and issues has often taken
him years to complete living with people for months at a time. In
Search of the San was a long and in depth documentation about
the lives of the modern San living in Namibia, Botswana and South
Africa. He has spent nearly two decades on this project living and
reflecting on their modern day existence. The outcome of these efforts
resulted in a number of exhibitions locally and internationally and
a book (In Search of the San). His documentary project with
the Kosi Bay community, at the time under threat of removal by the
apartheid government and the local conservation authorities developed
into a three -year relationship and exhibition for which he received
the Mother Jones Documentary Award. Other exhibitions and projects reflect human rights issues, environment, development and more recently work in the field of HIV and AIDS. His photographs have appeared in a number of established International publications - Der Spiegel, New York Times, LA Times, Time, Red, The Independent (London), Vrye Nederland and Elsivier, Geo and has been published in many others. Locally his work has appeared in Leadership Magazine, Marie Claire, Africa Environment and Wildlife and Sawubona amongst others. He has also worked extensively for non-governmental organisations. He was a founder member of New Ground Magazine based at EDA (a South African development organisation) serving in the capacity as photographer and picture editor. He has worked for the International Red Cross Society, Oxfam (UK, Canada and Australia), Save The Children, The Bernard Leer, Ford, the Mott, and Liberty Life Foundations. He has been widely published in a number of collective books, notably The Cordoned Heart (Gallery press, Norton),1986; Beyond the Barricades (a co-editor and photographer), (Aperture), 1989 ; Fault Lines, by David Goodman (University of California Press), 1999; Group Portrait (Kwela), 2003. His other books include: • Shaken Roots, about the San of Namibia (EDA 1990) text by Megan Biesele • Back to the Land, (Porcupine Press 1996) about the return to aboriginal land by displaced South African communities, text Marlene Winberg • An End to Waiting (IEC), a document of South Africa's first democratic elections (1994) • In Search of the San (Porcupine Press 1997), a book about the San of Today in southern Africa • Once We Were Hunters (Mets and Schilt, David Philip 2000), a journey with indigenous people in southern and eastern Africa • Durban, Impressions of an African City (Porcupine Press 2003), a reflection about his city Durban • Travelling Light (UKZN Press 2004), a reflection of 25 years work in southern Africa • The Moving Spirit (Mets and Schilt, Double Storey 2006) a personal spiritual journey He has also worked as a curator and produced a number of exhibitions :- • Culture and Resistence festival, Botswana 1982 • The Annual Staffrider Exhibition 1983-1989 • The Hidden Camera, Holland 1987 • Beyond the Handshake, Oxfam Belgium, 1992 • A Shifting Landscape, Foto Institute, Holland, 1994 • Xscape a collaboration of South African Documentary Photography, 1999, Nordic Countries and South Africa • Inside Aids, South African photographers response to the Aids pandemic, Belgian Trade Union Movement, 2004 Film In the early 1980’s he made oppositional low budget films on super 8. He worked with a community youth organisation, Khauleza to make a film about Alexandra Township, called The Dark City. With a young Harriet Gavshon he made a film about the destruction of Pageview, a suburb in the inner city of Johannesburg called Part of the Process. Both these films were shown at the Wits History Workshop. More recently
his engagement with film has been rekindled. He made a film called
Dancing for God about the annual Shembe Church pilgrimage;
Trancing in Dreamtime, with Junaid Ahmed, a unique meeting
point between San and Aboriginal musicians; and with Karin Shapiro
explored the concept of the South African diaspora in a film set
in North Carolina, USA, called Double Vision. |
