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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

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