“I was walking to the market for the third time when I immediately noticed that the colour was different. They were painting it. After several years of Robin’s Egg Blue, the market is now Pumpkin Orange. I thought, it does not matter what colour the walls are because you slowly get distracted by the various African cultures that give the space a colourful look.”
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 series of images I have developed focuses on the aura of the market. The market on the surface deals with the reality of gain vs. loss or the process of exchange. Beyond that lies a subtle ritual, an invisible language, a notion of give and take and a common ground between the space and the people occupying the space. The dialogue I have picked up in the space is that individuals bring with them their spirituality and beliefs. […]
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.