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A2 Landscape
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Fruit Seller, Woodstock Main Road
R 7,950
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About This Picture
A2 (42x60cm) Edition of 10, A3 (37,5x25cm) Edition of 15 - Archival inks on Hahnemühle PhotoRag 308gsm.
Fruit Seller, Woodstock Main Road, Cape Town 2011
I stayed in Woodstock for 2 years on the edge of the gentrification taking place there. I frequently travelled into the city by bus and taxi, so spent a lot of time on the main road. Having spent my school years working at my parents shop on the ‘grand parade’ in downtown Cape Town, then the hub for affordable food for the working classes coming to and departing from the near by bus terminus and train station, I had many friends who were ‘brokers’, hawking vegetables from street corners. ‘What do you want to do with the photo?’ he asked after I got permission to take his portrait, and I told him I wanted to make a giant print and hang it on a wall in a gallery overseas to show people who we are, and how we, regardless of nationality, religion, culture or creed have the same basic human form, that we share more than that which we differ, and that we all feel.
Another aspect of this portrait I find intriguing is the mix of genetics that Cape Town, as a historical port city has accrued over the generations which echoed the eastward expansion of the Western World and its ideas together with the forced osmosis of its value system, regarding nature as resource and human as labour. These ideas have influenced the life of the young man as it has all of us, though at the same time, he like me remain human.