More Hands

Another set of hands from Jozi

Hands of plenty

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.

At the end of the evening I don't know where we ended up. Shawn drove through obz and down the hill but I have no idea what the street was called or where we will find this again, but I shot this as the ladies inside cut hair in the storm. This is what I wanna feel, the buzz of a city created by the people that live in Jozi everyday!

Stormy eve in Hillbrow

As we hit the city it dawned on me how this was going to be one a hell of a journey, something that I've been longing to do for ages, but have been to busy doing other 'useful' stuff. Shawn shouted to take this picture as he drove us further through the city in the pouring rain. Brings back a memory from a Saul Williams track
'As I listened to Coltraine in the freezing rain,
I thought I saw Jesus'

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...

Just another random moment at the house in Melville.

Well done to guys like Ross Garrett and

Liam Lynch who get this right all the time! I'm still learning about stage lighting and the angles of live music photography. Right now I reckon the stage is quite overcrowded with photogs trying to steal the shot from each other. But thats exactly how it is in evrything we do. I love the competitiveness it will drive me to shoot more everyday which is why I'm feeling like a lost soul without my camera at the moment. It's in for repairs so I will only have it back next year some time. What will I do till then? I'm seeing new angles all day but I just can't shoot them. Maybe Nikon will give me a loan piece for now. Maybe I can get a therapist to write me a letter prescribing the urgent use of a camera for medical reasons.I'm going to give that a try seen that I bought it overseas the world wide warranty does not cover these purchases.

A bit of a dark one but this sets the mood for an interesting evening this girl had with her friend that night at Woodstock. Who knows where their minds went?!

Woodstock awhile ago. I'm posting the old stuff I found on my PC from ages ago. I got it so why not post it. Woodstock cooked during the day so I waited on stage just until dusk to get this shot of The New Academics.

Another Fuzi moment!

this was so long ago. The Femmes had come out for the second time. I rushed around that afternoon trying to org a press pass from Annelie from Oppikoppi. Thanks to her I got my pass, got drunk and shot this stuff. Fuzigish were rocking it on stage and gratefully I got this shot.

The drive up to Chloorkop was pretty interesting that morning. I consider myself to be a Mamelodi Sundowns fan because I come from PTA and live closer to Mams than I do to PTA. But I'm not a die hard fan of the Brazillians.

Calvin was going to be part of our sport section of the first issue of Pantera Magazine. As the sunrose on that Autumn morning over walked the nonchalant figure of Calvin. This guy was so chilled and we chatted about various apsects of the PSL and his role in Bafana Bafana. There is so much abouth SA Football that we don't know...

I went to school with the guy in the green jumper's (TB) bro. TB was a few years youger than me but we study together now at Wits. Yeah I'm old and half way through my studies. These two cats produce deep house beats and its so strange because TB's bro plays tunes with another good friend of mine. Strange how the world is so small and connected.