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A bronze statue on a plinth almost hidden inside a dense flock of pigeons rising into a blue sky.

© Jacques Nelles

The square belongs to the birds
Church Square, Pretoria

A person leaps with arms raised as pigeons scatter into flight, statue and government building behind.

© Jacques Nelles

The pigeon whisperer
Church Square, Pretoria

A bank of bright Jacaranda behind a low fence, bare trees and city buildings beyond.

© Jacques Nelles

Bougainvillea street

A man walks past a red building carrying a large bundle of grass brooms across his shoulder.

© Jacques Nelles

Tools of the day

A person wrapped in a red and white striped blanket walks through a concrete colonnade past a parked bicycle.

© Jacques Nelles

Stripes in the rain

Two men move in the middle of an empty street, one in a yellow shirt, trees and buildings behind.

© Jacques Nelles

Intersection theatre

A chicken crosses a street in front of a man pulling a wheeled suitcase, cars and shopfronts behind.

© Jacques Nelles

Crossing

An oil slick spreads bands of colour across a puddle on tar, the edge of a foot at the frame edge.

© Jacques Nelles

Oil slick

Ramaphosa in the trash bin with a blue gazebo over a street stall on an empty pavement, an older building behind.

© Jacques Nelles

Binned portrait

A man walks along a paved street carrying shopping bags, city towers ahead of him.

© Jacques Nelles

Carrying home

A red brick heritage building wrapped in scaffolding, a person with an umbrella on the pavement below.

© Jacques Nelles

Under scaffolding

A person works near the top of a metal lighting mast against a clear blue sky.

© Jacques Nelles

Relamping

A person sits on a bench beneath a tree on a hillside, the city spread out below.

© Jacques Nelles

Bench with a view

A large bronze statue of Nelson Mandela with arms outstretched on a lawn, a small white dog on the grass in front of it, city visible beyond.

© Jacques Nelles

Arms over the gardens
Union Buildings, Pretoria

Silhouetted figures in a dark interior of transport cut by a hard streak of light.

© Jacques Nelles

Night ride

An avenue of trees in autumn colour with one figure walking on the path between them.

© Jacques Nelles

Autumn avenue

A Khoisan man stands with both arms outstretched holding a sun flower, terraced gardens and a government building on the hill behind.

© Jacques Nelles

Offering at the statue
Union Buildings, Pretoria

A person in a wide hat stands among masses of pink flowering shrubs and trees.

© Jacques Nelles

Bougainvillea hedge

A man wlaks past a wall covered in graffiti lettering, blank windows above.

© Jacques Nelles

Tagged wall

Reflection of aapartment building windows in car window.

© Jacques Nelles

Reflection

A dark underpass strewn with rubbish, daylight at the far opening.

© Jacques Nelles

Underpass

People gathered along a low brick wall, one climbing over it, several wearing face masks, blue sky above.

© Jacques Nelles

At the wall

A man walks along an empty pavement past a building signed Opera, one pigeon in the air.

© Jacques Nelles

Past the opera

A single person crosses an empty multi-lane street at a traffic light, tall city buildings and blue sky behind.

© Jacques Nelles

Empty street

Pigeons feed on the ground between parked minibus taxis as a man walks through carrying a bag.

© Jacques Nelles

Through the flock

Two women in blue and pink dresses walk along a sand path past corrugated iron shacks.

© Jacques Nelles

Encampment

Clothing and mannequins displayed on the pavement outside a shop as a man walks past.

© Jacques Nelles

Window shopping

Open umbrellas beside a white minibus taxi in the rain, shopfront signage above.

© Jacques Nelles

Rank in the rain

Black and white photograph of a person bent double gathering something from the pavement in front of a wall covered in posters.

© Jacques Nelles

Arcade

A young man in a peaked cap with a metal badge and a silver jacket looks directly at the camera on a street.

© Jacques Nelles

Portrait in a peaked cap

Black and white photograph of a person lying on bedding in a doorway while others stand nearby on the pavement.

© Jacques Nelles

Corner exchange

A man walks away down a city street lined with high-rise buildings and painted signage, cars parked at the kerb.

© Jacques Nelles

Under the mural

Black and white photograph of a shirtless man with tattooed chest and shoulders, holding a cloth, washing outdoors.

© Jacques Nelles

The count

Black and white close view of hands working over patterned cloth.

© Jacques Nelles

In hand

Elevated view over the roofs of yellow minibus taxis, a crowd marching along the road behind them.

© Jacques Nelles

Taxi signs and a march

Pigeons gather in the foreground of Church Square, with the fenced Paul Kruger statue and a 'free education now' banner behind them.

© Jacques Nelles

Church Square regulars
Church Square, Pretoria