Archive for May, 2010

Riding the Jesus train in Smitville

Of all the traits which I think are vital to being a documentary photographer, I think an unhealthy curiosity or, simply put, sheer nosiness, is core critical and fundamental. Shyness isn’t necessarily desirable either. And you can only do fly-on-the wall for so long. In the end you simply have to poke your nose in. [...]

Turning to Jesus in Willowmore

Well she walked up to my quarterlight and she bent down real slow… She said “Son, what are you doing here? On your journey ‘cross the wilderness from the desert to the well you have strayed upon the motorway to Hell Chris Rea- The Road to Hell Part 1 Ah, mon cher, for anyone who [...]

Robben Island—walking with the Hag Pt 2

It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away [...]

In the townships-walking with the hag Pt. 1

Crone: Two things, my lord, must thee know of the Wisewoman. First, she is … a woman! …and second, she is … Edmund: Wise? Crone: You do know her then? Edmund: No, just a wild stab in the dark which is incidentally what you’ll be getting if you don’t start being a bit more helpful. [...]