ABOUT ME
By day, I’m a historian of empires in their twilight. My work moves through southern Africa, the Indian Ocean, port cities, archives and the lives of people caught in motion between places. Whenever I can, though, I walk with a camera.
Based in the never-empty city of Johannesburg, my written and visual interests cut across streets, architecture, waterfronts and coastlines of various kinds. Photography sits alongside my archival work as a parallel way of thinking: journey as method, looking as habit, noticing as a meditation on past and present. If writing explores how people move across places, photography lets me explore how places move across people.
I’m drawn to the fleeting arrangements of people and things that cities generate, usually without much warning: odd juxtapositions, eccentric splashes of colour, quirks of geometry, and the shadows cast by ruins ancient and modern. The galleries here gather photographs reaching back to analogue years in the early 2000s, some digitally freshened-up with a lick of paint, and continue into the present. Driftwork is the name I give to this habit of attentive wandering, and you can read more about here. These photographs, many imperfect, are a record of that drift: moments that caught my eye before either they or I vanished again.
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