It poured while we road up the hill passed the Sentech tower into Brixton and Fordsburg. Acorss the city we headed for a trip into the old suburbs of Hillbrow and Berea. Shooting random pics from the window was not entirely our intention but we would have been soaked, mugged and who knows what would have happended had we got out of the car in the middle of Hillbrow. From the passenger side I shot a few frames, a complete voyeurism but then we didn't intend to get off on others in the rain. I wanted to document the storm as it disrupted this Tuesday evening in one the busiest suburbs in Africa.
Through Hillbrow up the hill into observatory and around the block we drove through the rain taking random images from all over the city. This will probably lead to another adventure into our urban jungle, maybe even a picture story...
I wanted to shoot a mechanics of music styled thing with Sweat X in a panelbeaters in the old part of town, but Sweat X ran out of time. It was when Shawn and I were getting the keys for the workshop that I caught a view of the owner's hands and realised how fascinating I found his fingers wrapped around his keys. He had bumps and cuts all over his finger tips which often happens when mechanics are trying to fit new parts and they have to fasten the bolts which are placed in obscure little holes. It gave me an idea for a picture story of the hands that manual people use to make their living. So this is the First selection from that series.
