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Bohemian spires in all their various forms. 🇨🇿
13/06/2025

Bohemian spires in all their various forms.
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New Year’s eve 2024, spent touring the Czech Republic. Perfectly delicate golden light, castle turrets piercing the crys...
23/05/2025

New Year’s eve 2024, spent touring the Czech Republic. Perfectly delicate golden light, castle turrets piercing the crystal horizons and fiery red leaves amongst the icy woods. When you’ve grown up in the kalahari desert, this is nothing short of a fairy tale. The last day of the year - the axis at which you look both back in contemplation of the year gone by and forward in curious anticipation of the one ahead. I’ve always found that bringing in the new year is best done with a mix of old and familiar; some love, some family and new friends that hopefully become old friends. Taken months ago in the northern hemisphere, the winter relay race begins here in the southern.

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I’ve been sitting on some work from last year, an incredibly special trip to a far flung corner of my home country thank...
06/05/2025

I’ve been sitting on some work from last year, an incredibly special trip to a far flung corner of my home country thanks to the invitation of . There is so much to share but for some reason these arbitrary in-between moments stood out to me today as a starting point. Road trips never disappoint; the hours with yourself on the road, the hours with strangers you meet along the way and the moments you don’t even know how to categorise, interactions that you can’t quite recount but that stick with you forever.
1. Dawn between villages, driving slowly to avoid colliding with cattle or elephant. A solo figure readying to release his livestock for grazing, a whole herd of herd dogs at the ready. I stopped, we chatted, all five dogs ecstatic to greet me with early morning energy.
2. Nhlanhla’s careful carvings, heads of the Ground Hornbill. Lehututu in Setswana; the beautiful and bizarre dodo-like birds with a deep rhythmic call and piercing blue eyes.
3. Abandoned cattle post outside Gunotsoga, overgrazed and under nourished. A tragedy in the village that week, a young life lost and the air thick with the smog of heavy hearts.
4. Mathuso by the drums with the memory of dances still printed in the sand.


Sunset on Moonlight Beach.
01/03/2025

Sunset on Moonlight Beach.

Boma 2; past the informal soccer pitch on the floodplain, beyond the thicket that is home to the bush theatre, keep goin...
26/02/2025

Boma 2; past the informal soccer pitch on the floodplain, beyond the thicket that is home to the bush theatre, keep going south and cross the river…you will eventually come across zebra grazing amongst domestic cattle.
The grass is thick and lush and the clouds are heavy with imminent summer rain, but to herd cattle this deep into the Okavango Delta is to live amongst lions.
Kutlwano, IP, Alex, Joseph, Nandos and Obie make up just one of the boma teams safeguarding cattle day and night.
Supported by a team of researchers tracking the proximity of predators, the cattle are let out from the mobile bomas each morning to graze through the bush. The cattle are accompanied by the eco rangers, who are accompanied by their dogs; Vampire, Co***ne, Parasite and Spots.
Fresh river bream makes a good bush dinner, a sturdy branch a welcoming dining chair and plenty of jokes at each other’s expense for entertainment. Once Kutlwano approves of where you have placed your tent, out of the elephant feeding path, you are assured a fantastic night’s sleep.

Long dead but alive with flames, the next day gone entirely.Street scenes and fever dreams from the Okavango Delta. ...
18/12/2024

Long dead but alive with flames, the next day gone entirely.
Street scenes and fever dreams from the Okavango Delta.

Last year, through the worst of the winter floods and Cape storms, journalist Julie Bourdin and I took to the ocean for ...
15/11/2024

Last year, through the worst of the winter floods and Cape storms, journalist Julie Bourdin and I took to the ocean for . Despite constantly navigating big swell, bad visibility and icy waters it was such a special assignment; “Taming the ocean; a vast segregated coastline”
I can’t wait to receive my print copy but for now here are some of my favourite moments from the story.
We joined the to see the wonderful work they do and meet some of the youngsters experiencing their ocean for the first time.
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“The diving workshop attended by these children from disadvantaged coastal communities in the Cape region is designed to familiarise them with the ocean for two days. The organisation I Am Water, founded in 2010 by Hanli Prinsloo, a former South African freediving champion, has set itself the task of repairing these youngsters’ relationship with the ocean. According to the National Sea Rescue Institute, only 15% of South Africans can swim, despite the country’s 2,000 kilometres of coastline... This reality is partly inherited from the country’s painful history. Successive waves of colonisation, followed by the racist apartheid regime (1948-1991), displaced many ‘non-white’ coastal communities away from the ocean. From the 1960s onwards, beaches - like the rest of public space - were subjected to a system of racial segregation, with the best bathing spots reserved for the white minority and more dangerous areas relegated to the rest of the population. Apartheid ended in 1991, and yet... There is always a trans generational trauma,” says historian Rose Boswell, a specialist in oceanic cultures and heritage at Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth. The experiences and sufferings of the previous generation are partly passed on to younger generations.”
From Cape Point to the Cape Flats, what a journey.
Thank you also to for letting us see the important work you do at the foundation and hear what the ocean means to you.

Moods and moments from my last shoot with in Botswana. Our days were dictated by the movement of wildlife; wondering ho...
07/10/2024

Moods and moments from my last shoot with in Botswana. Our days were dictated by the movement of wildlife; wondering how many elephants might turn up for our sunset shots, whether the elusive fishing owl might grace us with her presence and if the zebra will still be migrating in their vast numbers by the time we moved camps. Our nights were rewarded with the symphony of their movements; ellies gently wading through the river, mother owl’s constant calling to her chick and the benign bickering of nocturnal critters outside our tents.
What a joy to work with the Desert & Delta team on their beautiful new Savute lodge, amongst others. It’s always so special to be working on home turf, particularly when collaborating with such passionate people.
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Portraits and potterings of Botterblom street, Prince Albert. h_mohair
02/10/2024

Portraits and potterings of Botterblom street, Prince Albert. h_mohair

The Journey to Jazz festival opening, an explosion of sound and soul. With an old quarry for an amphitheatre, these youn...
03/06/2024

The Journey to Jazz festival opening, an explosion of sound and soul. With an old quarry for an amphitheatre, these young women danced their hearts out.

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