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At the northern entrance to Prince Albert in the Great Karoo lies Northend, a neighbourhood home to a special group of people. They have a very special way of communicating with others through their stories, which indicate an inherent joy of life. However, judging by their environment and circumstances, it is clear that they have experienced many hardship, and for an outsider it is an enriching experience to meet them.
Every picture in Slow Down Look Again tells a story and is supported by explanatory text. These enable the reader to gain insight into the past and the present of this unique neighbourhood and its residents.
The joy and sorrows of the residents of Northend - as well as their scant earthly possessions - are illustrated through Louis Botha?s excellent choice of photographic backgrounds. And yet the absolute neatness of their homes illustrates a certain pride - poverty without dilapidation. The intimacy of the photographs ultimately leaves the reader enriched. We become witnesses not only to the extraordinary character of a close-knit community, but also of its trusting relationship with the person whom they have allowed to tell their story.
Louis Botha was born in Bloemfontein in 1955 and grew up on a small-holding north-east of Pretoria. After school he studied finance and followed a career in the Financial Services Industry. At the age of 40, and encouraged by his wife he pursued his hobby more seriously. He?s held several exhibitions and lives in Prince Albert.
Africa State of Mind gathers together the work of an emergent
generation of photographers from across Africa, including both the
Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa. It is both a summation of new
photographic practice from the last decade and an exploration of
how contemporary photographers from the continent are exploring
ideas of 'Africanness' to reveal Africa to be a psychological space
as much as a physical territory - a state of mind as much as a
geographical place. Dispensing with the western colonial view of
Africa in purely geographic or topographic terms, Ekow Eshun
presents Africa State of Mind in four thematic parts: Hybrid
Cities; Inner Landscapes; Zones of Freedom; and Myth and Memory.
Each theme, introduced by a text by Eshun, presents selections of
work by a new wave of African photographers who are looking both
outward and inward: capturing life among the sprawling cities and
multitudinous conurbations of the continent, turning the legacy of
the continent's history into the source of resonant new myths and
dreamscapes and exploring questions of gender, sexuality and
identity. Each of the photographers seeks to capture the experience
of what it means, and how it feels, to live in Africa today.
Following in the outstanding success of the first edition, this
wonderful celebration of landscape photography shortlists the
winning photographs from the second Landscape Photographer of the
Year competition. 'Take a view', the Landscape Photographer of the
Year competition, is the brainchild of Charlie Waite, one of
today's most respected landscape photographers. Together with AA
Publishing, he has created this prestigious competition and award,
which was hugely successful in its first year. Britain's heritage
is celebrated by people around the world and entries are welcome
from everyone, whether resident in the UK or simply visiting, as
long as the image is of the British Isles. The full-colour book of
best entries will showcase the best pictures from amateur and
professional photographers alike.
Louth Rediscovered is a photography book with the most concise
collection of Louth heritage sites. County Louth is known for being
the smallest county in Ireland, but did you know that it also has
the largest number of heritage sites per capita outside of Dublin?
Join landscape photographer Mark Duffy on a journey of rediscovery
and explore some of the best locations to visit in County Louth.
See Louth like you've never done before, through the eyes of a
landscape photographer. Mark visits everything from stunning vistas
across the Cooley Mountains to church ruins, castle ruins and even
some living castles. Whether you're from Louth or looking for
somewhere new to visit, Louth Rediscovered will guide you to the
best locations but also show you some of the best times to visit
these stunning places. Take a journey of rediscovery and Rediscover
Louth.
The San inhabited the whole of southern Africa before the spear and
the gun drove them further into the desert region of the Kalahari.
They are among the last of the hunting and gathering societies in
an agricultural and industrialised world. Small by Western
standards, the polite greeting to a San man is one of deference to
his unmistakable stature "I saw your shadow looming afar". Although
their lifestyle may appear haphazard to the casual eye, on closer
inspection, a defined pattern appears.
Tom Connolly's journey into non-league football unearthed something
bigger than sport. The result is a collection of stunning
photographs recording the lives lived on the perimeter of the
pitch. For anyone who craves fairness in life and wants fairness in
sport, modern elite football offers a confusing, love-hate
relationship, one which sent Tom Connolly in search of the game he
had fallen in love with as a boy. Like many of the men and women he
met on the non-league terraces, he found it in grassroots football.
Football fans have always been fair game for vilification and
stereotyping. This book is about the human beings to be found in
the beautiful game. Telling its story through a collection of
remarkable black-and-white and colour photos of the people who make
the game what it is, FAIR GAME reminds us that in community-minded
non-league football clubs, the heart and soul of sport is alive and
well, against all the odds and despite those running and owning the
upper reaches of the game.
Minnesota might not seem like an obvious place to look for traces
of Ku Klux Klan parade grounds, but this northern state was once
home to fifty-one chapters of the KKK. Elizabeth Hatle tracks down
the history of the Klan in Minnesota, beginning with the racially
charged atmosphere that produced the tragic 1920 Duluth lynchings.
She measures the influence the organization wielded at the peak of
its prominence within state politics and tenaciously follows the
careers of the Klansmen who continued life in the public sphere
after the Hooded Order lost its foothold in the Land of Ten
Thousand Lakes.
Following the award-winning Seeds: Time Capsules of Life, Wolfgang
Stuppy and Rob Kesseler explore the fascinating world of fruits
through a unique presentation of extraordinary images from around
the world accompanied by a lively explanatory text. Fruit. The word
itself conjures up mouthwatering memories of crunchy apples,
luscious strawberries, sweet bananas, succulent melons and juicy
pineapples, to which we can add the splendid tropical fruits on our
supermarket shelves. They are one of nature's most wonderful gifts
but providing us with a healthy source of food is not the reason
that plants produce such delicious fruits. It is therefore quite
legitimate to ask what fruits are, and why they exist. As will be
revealed, the true nature of fruits is concealed in what is buried
in their core: their seeds. The key role that both play in the
survival of each species explains the manifold strategies and ruses
that plants have developed for the dispersal of their seeds.
Whether these involve wind, water, humans, animals or the plant's
own explosive triggers, they are reflected in the many colours,
shapes and sizes of the fruits that protect the seeds and in the
extraordinary way that some fruits have adapted to the animals that
disperse their seeds, and the animals to the fruits they relish. In
this pioneering collaboration, visual artist Rob Kesseler and seed
morphologist Wolfgang Stuppy use scanning electronmicroscopy to
obtain astonishing images of a variety of fruits and the seeds they
protect. Razor-sharp cross-sections reveal intricate interiors,
nuts and other examples of botanical architecture and reproductive
ingenuity. The black and white microscope images have been
sumptuously coloured by Rob Kesseler highlighting the structure and
functioning of the minuscule fruit and seeds some almost invisible
to the naked eye and in so doing creating a work of art. Larger
fruits, flowers and seeds have been especially photographed. The
formation, development and demise of the fruits are described,
their vital role in the preservation of the biodiversity of our
planet explained. Fruits are the keepers of the precious seeds that
ensure our future; some are edible, others inedible and many, quite
simply, incredible.
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