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Essays 1 · Frames in archive 12 · Albums 1 · Workshops facilitated 1 · Walks led 2

Essays.

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

Isithunzi: the weight of the shadow

Newest frames.

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.
Emmanuel Munano

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.
Emmanuel Munano

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.
Emmanuel Munano

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.
Emmanuel Munano

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.
Emmanuel Munano

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.
Emmanuel Munano

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.
Emmanuel Munano

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.
Emmanuel Munano

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.
Emmanuel Munano

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.
Emmanuel Munano

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.
Emmanuel Munano

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.

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

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.

Albums.

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Bathong! our first photography walk of 2026

2 photographs · Thursday, 3 September 2026

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Workshops facilitated.

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