SOCCER IN AFRICA

Have been working on a series of soccer images over the last 2 years. The photographs were taken around the Eastern Cape in South Africa, and in the mountainous areas of Lesotho. The Witteberge are a range of mountains situated at the Southern tip of the great Drakensberg Mountain Range.

I love photographing the people here, they are a salt of the earth people, without the hangups and attitudes of city dwellers! They are passionate about their soccer and play at any given opportunity. If a ball cannot be found, an old Coke can will do!

Most of the games between teams are played on "fields" that can be mere sandy patches in the middle of nowhere in very remote parts of the country.

I love the intensity of light , the colour, the enthusiasm of the players and the excitement of the unknown on my way there...

Scorched Savannah.

Scorched Savannah is showing at The National Wine Centre In Adelaide, Australia until the end of January 2010.

There has been a lot of interest in the images - they are very emotive, not for the apathetic viewer!!!

I photographed this series in the Witteberge mountain range, on the cusp of Lesotho, the smallest mountain Kingdom in Africa...

The photographs depict the intensity and majesty of the flames, and the aftermath of controlled burning on the environment. The contrast of the magnificence of the flames, and the monochromatic character of the scorched earth is riveting!!!

The beauty after the burn is found in the tactile textures of the ashes, grass and rock... these have an almost lunar quality to them.

The series intends to lead the viewer onto questions of mortality, and the fragility of life... as has been said - 'eternity has been set in the hearts of men.'