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High-angle black and white photograph of two long single-decker buses parked on a street, with pedestrians and their long shadows on the pavement.

Golden Arrow buses on the rank at first light, seen from above, the shadows longer than the people.
Cape Town · 2010

Close-up black and white photograph of a hand in a dark knitted cuff held open above a fire, with other hands out of focus behind.

A child's hand over the same fire, closer.
Cape Town · 2010

Young people crouching around a small fire on tarmac, holding their hands out over the flames, Cape Town.

Illegal immigrant with their hands out over a fire of scrap in the road, before the Home Affairs opens on the dock.
Cape Town · 2010

Person's blurred silhouette seen through steamed glass covered in water droplets, Cape Town.

A figure stands behind wet glass, present as a shape and nothing more.
Cape Town · 2010

A woman in a cap laughing with her fists raised in the back of a minibus taxi, other passengers talking behind her.

Word reaches the taxi that the Springboks have won, and a passenger throws her head back with both fists up while the row behind her carries on.
Cape Town · 2011

Photograph taken from below of a police officer in a tactical vest with both hands raised in a shop doorway, two men standing inside behind him.

An officer in body armour raises both hands in a shop doorway while two men watch from inside.
Cape Town · 2014

A woman in a pale dress standing on a narrow traffic island in front of a bookshop window, framed by dark vertical edges.

A woman waits on the traffic island outside a bookshop, seen through the gap between two dark shapes.
Cape Town · 2012

a large painted leopard and arrows on a peeling wall, with a man in a white jacket sitting on a low ledge in the doorway to the right, Woodstock, Cape Town.

A man sits in a doorway beside a painted antelope and two arrows, his bedding rolled up next to him.
Cape Town · 2012

A church facade with two illuminated crosses and a lit sign, a blurred car passing and a man pushing a trolley on the right, Cape Town.

Two lit crosses on the front of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a car going past, a man pushing his trolley home along the kerb.
Cape Town · 2011

Blikkiesdorp - a large settlement of identical corrugated iron structures in ruled rows, with mountains behind and a boy bending over backwards on sand in the foreground.

Numbered structures in ruled lines to the horizon, and a boy turning himself over in the sand outside the fence.
Cape Town · 2011

A young man rests his hand against his face on the morning train, the carriage packed around him.
Cape Town · 2009

The interior ceiling of a train carriage, with a passenger in silhouette below.

Vents, a light that is not on, and a passenger's head against the dark.
Cape Town · 2010

Two hands gripping a vertical metal pole inside a crowded train, passengers out of focus behind.

Two passengers hold the same pole at different heights, which is how a full carriage is shared.
Cape Town · 2010

Looking straight down at a pedestrian crossing, with a single person walking across the painted white bars.

One person on the stripes, from the height of a building.
Cape Town · 2009

Central Cape Town bus terminus and a large bus destination board listing dozens of place names, with people waiting beneath it outside shuttered shops.

The board over the bus deck lists Atlantis and Khayelitsha, Sea Point and Nyanga, Table Mountain and Delft, all in the same three columns.
Cape Town · 2009

A skater in a red Converse shirt in mid-air above his board, pigeons scattering around him, with a palisade fence and a sandstone government building behind.

Side Quest Skate & Chill, Church Square, Pretoria, 8 November 2025. A skater lifts off the paving in front of the Palace of Justice and the flock goes up with him. The sessions are run by LES Skate Pretoria in the build-up to the Les Sk8 market at Sunnyside Sports Grounds, and as part of a campaign for a public skatepark in the capital.
Church Square, Pretoria · 2025

Black and white photograph of three people on a city square lawn surrounded by hundreds of pigeons, several birds in flight around their outstretched hands.

Church Square, Pretoria, 8 November 2025. Between skate runs the square belongs to the pigeons, and to whoever will stand still long enough to hold one.
Church Square, Pretoria · 2025

Low-angle view of folk dancers in long floral skirts and boots turning on tarmac, with a seated crowd and festival tents behind.

Kruger 200 concert, Heritage Day, Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, 24 September 2025. Shot from the tar, the dance comes down to hems, boots and the seated crowd behind them.
Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria · 2025

A carved stone relief of ox wagons on the Voortrekker Monument's outer wall, with the Pretoria skyline and hills visible behind it.

Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, 24 September 2025. The stone wagons of the monument's perimeter laager stand between the viewer and the CBD, with the Union Buildings on the ridge beyond.
Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria · 2025

Wide view of the Pretoria city centre skyline from a wooded ridge, with the Union Buildings on the hillside to the right and cumulus cloud above.

Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, 24 September 2025. The city centre sits low in the bowl with the Union Buildings on the far ridge, seen from the monument on Heritage Day.
Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria · 2025

Close-up of a young man holding out a diamante chain with a broken-heart clasp and a pendant reading "NO LOVE".

A young man lifts his chain away from his chest for the camera, the pendant reading "no love", his face cropped above the mouth. Pretoria, South Africa.
Pretoria

A young man plays a large brass tuba while marching in a city street, another player beside him, with cars, a traffic officer and high-rise buildings around them.

Feast of the Clowns, Pretoria, 16 October 2021. A Field Band Foundation player carries his tuba through the traffic while a metro officer holds the crossing.
Pretoria · 2021

A performer in a purple and orange jester costume rides a unicycle down the middle of a city street, with a costumed parade and banners following behind.

Feast of the Clowns, Pretoria, 16 October 2021. A jester rides the centre line ahead of the drums, the banners and the wigs, on a march that is equal parts carnival and protest.
Pretoria · 2021

Feast of the Clowns, Burgers Park, Sunnyside, Pretoria, 16 October 2021. A boy holds his placard above his head on the roots of the park's fig, at the front of the children's rights march.
Burgers Park, Sunnyside, Pretoria · 2021

A young brass player with a tuba in the foreground, and behind him people in clown wigs holding a hand-painted banner reading "Together 4 Children's Rights" under a large tree.

Feast of the Clowns, Burgers Park, Sunnyside, Pretoria, 16 October 2021. A Field Band Foundation player fills the left of the frame while the banner and the painted placards go up under the tree behind him.
Pretoria · 2021

A boy in a cap walks past a yellow wall covered in torn posters, with railing shadows and a figure's shadow cast across the wall.

Salvokop Bridge, Pretoria. A boy in a cap walks the corner of a wall of torn election posters, the railings and a bent figure printed onto the plaster behind him.

A peeling yellow bridge wall with the Pretoria skyline behind it and the photographer's head-and-shoulder shadow in the lower left corner.

Salvokop Bridge, Pretoria. The city stands above a stripped yellow wall and the only figure in the frame is the photographer's own, entering from the bottom corner.

A woman in a black top and patterned skirt walks along a pavement carrying a sports bag, beneath a round pool of light on a dark wall.

Schoeman Street, Pretoria. A woman carries a sports bag past a dark wall, held for a moment inside the single circle of light thrown onto the plaster above her.

A man sits with a takeaway coffee cup behind a window, the reflected street and buildings overlaying his face and jacket.

Pretorius Street, Pretoria. A man rests against the pillar with a takeaway cup while the street outside carries on straight across his face.

A menswear display window of suits and ties on hangers, a passer-by reflected in the glass and a head-shaped shadow on the back wall.

Paul Kruger Street, Pretoria. Jackets and ties hang in the display with nobody in them, while a passer-by and the shadow of a head arrive in the same sheet of glass.

A young boy in silhouette sits against a red and white painted wall, with two head-and-shoulder shadows falling on either side of him.

Mamelodi West, Pretoria. A boy sits at the join of the red and the white while two cast profiles keep their own positions on either side of him.

Pedestrians and a minibus taxi seen through and reflected in a shopfront window, layering two views of a busy street.

Lilian Ngoyi Street, Pretoria. Shopfront glass folds the pavement crowd into the street behind it, so the same people stand on both sides of the frame at once.

A woman with long curly hair, seen from behind, faces a sunlit wall where her shadow holding a cup falls beside a traffic-light shadow.

Du Toit Street, Pretoria. A woman faces the wall in the last of the light while her shadow, cast beside the shadow of a traffic signal, lifts a cup ahead of her.

A man in a green golf shirt walks past a blue "Pay Point" sign, with his shadow and the sign's shadow falling on a sandstone wall.

Church Square, Pretoria. A man passes under the parking sign in late sun, the sandstone behind him carrying the shadow of the pole, the sign, and his own head.

Blurred blue-hour street scene in rain, taxi and shop lights reflecting on a flooded road, a dark figure walking across the centre.

Bosman Station, Pretoria. Rain, taxi lights and a turreted facade collapse into one another at blue hour, with a single walker holding his shape in the middle of it.

A man in a white shirt walks through a rain-soaked intersection at dusk, his head a dark silhouette against wet tar.

Bosman Station, Pretoria. A commuter crosses out of the frame while the intersection holds the weather, traffic lights and signage doubled in the wet tar behind him.

Bosman Street, Pretoria. Two women wait against the blue and the concrete while the shadow of a man in a hat crosses the plaster beside them, present in the frame without ever entering it.