Street Photography Africa feat. A Threat in Carnarvon

I’ve spent thirty years hitting the streets and trying to petrify the action that I encounter into a version of reality that corresponds with my philosophy of life.

To produce A Threat in Carnarvon, I used a massive Linhof Technika loaded with large-format film (4 x 5") and criss-crossed South Africa for a decade from 2004.

Initially I had in mind a serious body of photographs from which the attentive viewer might extract, by staring at the photos, some version of the socio-political DNA pervading the second decade of democracy.

At some point I realised that while my personality is of course mirrored in the decisions about what to photograph and how to photograph it, what mattered most to me was a record of the encounters’ dialogues.

Therefore, I did a hard left and laced the series with words describing the conversations and feelings I had while alone with the people who handed over trust, and describing the landscape in which they plied their existence.

Here's a selection of 'street photography.'