LIKE FLOWERS GROW: AFRICAN QUEER WANDERERS / TRYBE COLLECTIVE
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow” – John Lennon
LENSE
DANIEL WALTON
My gender identity influences everything I create! I create things that try break binaries of gender in a way to help me understand myself and my identity.
ME / GIDEON ALLEN
“THE ART OF SURVIVAL IS A STORY THAT NEVER ENDS.”–Christian Bale
GOLDISH RUSH / ABONGWE QOKELA
You are gold forever. You might dim down a little every time life takes you for a drag in the streets but, it actually polishes you and your gold shines even more.
FRINGE COMMUNITIES / LUKE DANIEL
I’m a social documentary photographer, focusing my lens on South African fringe communities isolated geographically or psychologically from conventional society.
SOMBER DAYS / LOUIS VORSTER
Most of my landscapes are collected on short road trips or exploratory outings, sometimes to places not easily accessible to others.
THE DIVER / ANIMATION
The Diver; A short story about an insecure young women who is self-conscious about her passion for diving. DIRECTOR: WE ARE BATCH TV ILLUSTRATION: FRAN…
IN THE MOMENT / JESSE NAVARRE VOS
I first picked up a camera when I was 16. We had black and white film photography as a subject and had a dark room at school – which became one of my favorite places to spend time in.
PLEASE, TAKE ME BACK / LUKE MARITZ
I am here to see it with my own eyes, for one moment in time I am free to document as I pleas
HEMELLIGGAAM OR THE ATTEMPT TO BE HERE NOW
The attempt to be here now
VARIOUS DIMENSIONS / KGOMOTSO NETO TLEANE
Kgomotso’s work makes us aware of our ignorance.
MARCEL MAASSEN
Growing up, I moved around a lot and in turn was confronted with a lot of different situations and adventures. The only constant I can ever say I’ve had is skating and a fascination for film, as the people I surrounded myself with were always documenting and filming their day-to-day lives.
[CROP] PROJECT | PHOTOGRAPHIC STREET INTERVENTION
In December 2017, [CROP] Project initiated their first collaborative street intervention, using large scale photography and the streets of Johannesburg to connect different people across multiple platforms and spaces.
SKIN DIVER / KATYA ABEDIAN
To be okay with not being like everyone else, and to be confidently vulnerable.
MUSE / MIKHAILIA PETERSEN
For most of us, our late teens and early twenties are an important stage of shaping our identity and self expression. This is especially true with these four South African individuals, each carving their own creative journey.
COVER STORY ISSUE 19- BEHIND THE SCENES / SAADIQ SOEKER
I’m trying to create content that centres people like me, People of Colour, Queers, and I’m trying to do it with as much authenticity as possible.
BREAKING BOUNDARIES / EYEFORCE CAPE TOWN
It was a belief that a mile could not be run in 4 minutes.
Now, over 20 000 people have broken that record- including high school kids.
ABBERATION / SILA YALAZAN
“İ am how you see me“ PHOTOGRAPHY: SILA YALAZAN This is a selection of portraits I’ve been working on since living in my old home…
STALKER / MEGHAN DANIELS
“I started photographing as a sort of personal diary. I still do this today. I document those closest to me – friends, family, and myself….
STALKER / FRANTZ BIRKHOLTZ
“I initially started shooting on digital but once I picked up the film camera, the digital had to take a back seat. Film was just…
STALKER / GONTSE MORE – PHATSTOKI
“I think it happens organically? But I usually shoot in places I’m familiar with, whether it be in my hood or my homie’s hood, or…