Photographs from Home

I grew up in Cape Town, by the sea. When I was about ten we lived in a house in Bantry Bay where the lower boundary was the high-water mark. The Atlantic ocean, ever-changing, the constant crashing of the waves, the play of light, the way the sea breaks over rocks, throwing up spray, running cold and bright into cracks and crevices, fizzing over the sand, seeped into my bones, coloured my soul. Later, I grew to know and love the hinterland - the Great Karoo, the highveld, the giant spears of the Drakensberg, the koppies and plains of the Free State.

The thirteen photographs in this collection make no pretence of being representative or ‘typical.’ Rather, for me, they register an emotional temperature - this is what home feels like. These scenes, this light, this palette of tones and colours.