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. […]
While everyone was focusing on the consumables of the Yeoville Market and its surroundings, I came across a stall with a variety of beauty products such as ranges of make-up kits, nail products, perfumes, skincare – both facial and body, catering for both men and women. As a photographer with an interest in commercial photography, I was immediately drawn to this stall. I photographed the stall and its different products in a manner reminiscent of product shots. This was interesting […]
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 […]
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 […]