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...
