Looking for an affordable daily vegetable market? Yeoville Market is the place to go! When one considers how photography functions in the discourse of food and food production, it is imperative to highlight that we are visual and emotional creatures. Statistically speaking, we have a health epidemic worldwide, which is not limited to obesity but also general health and understanding of how food functions in our body. I have chosen food photography to highlight the importance of healthy […]
The Yeoville market is filled with food, clothing and people. Of course it would have been the easier way of representing the Yeoville market as a whole with human features in my work. But with the harassment I was getting there from male stallholders, I had to think on the spot and shift my narrative, to focusing on something that would not lead to people asking me, “Why are you photographing in my space?” or, “Baby you look nice, […]
My project is aimed at the spaces the market has as I have acknowledged that every marketplace is a busy place buzzing with people, it is a space where economic growth and trading takes place. Spaces within Yeoville Market aims to take my personality to the place I am not really connected to. I found spaces that I belong in which remind me of home. “Peace”, a piece of a place I call home. I focused on corners where […]
Underlying my work is the desire to learn more about empathy, sympathy, and compassion, and to convey these human traits in a way that impacts lives. My choice of subject is rooted in intuition and is propelled by a reflective desire to understand myself as a young black woman. As I document stories of black women in their environments, I’m intrigued by our similarities, differences, what lies beneath our smiles, what dreams are kept hidden. Mine is not to simply […]
This work focuses on the aspect of how some people’s trash can turn into gold, looking at how far these guys come from just to open and close our bins. I have chosen this concept because I was always exposed to township cleaners but didn’t pay much attention to it. Growing up we used to see a van exchanging snacks for empty bottles and we used to call it Banana Kar. These men were doing recycling similar to the […]