My story about the Yeoville Market is centred around the space of the Market and the actual structure and how people relate and interact within the space. People spend a lot of time at the Market and it has become a secondary community for most of the people there. The actual structure is what all the people have in common but they all relate to the space differently as they all have different stalls in different sections of the market. […]
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 […]
Johannesburg has always been seen as a city of hope. This project shows the reality of the Yeoville Market, but also reflects the hopes and aspirations of its traders. The Market is a community of migrants, mostly economic migrants from all over Africa. It is a vibrant, colourful, often chaotic pan-African space. These images look at how people adapt to a new and foreign space, a space with different types of soil, food and cultures. How they utilize the […]
The title of this body of work is 10 Years and Beyond. It focuses on the marketeers that have been at the market for more than 10 years and who are still selling at the market today. Some of the marketeers have achieved a lot with the little money that they make at the market. They all come from different places leaving their families, just to make ends meet.