"Writing poetry requires you to reach a level of clarity and enjoyment of your voice."
"I sought to create work that deals with memory, loss, nostalgia and the sense of what it means to truly belong."
"My approach is to become a part of the community — a simulation of what and whom I could have become had I grown up on the Cape Flats."
"I knew from the time I was a kid that I wanted to write books, but then life happened and I ended up in finance."
"When I analyse the image, with the dog looking away, it is a bit blurry. To me that evokes this idea of disconnectedness."
"The stories I write come from being a black woman in South Africa, the friendships and relationships I have had…what we perceive as love."
In the film Shwabada, by Mind Your Head, about jazz legend Ndikho Xaba, musicologist Dr Sazi Dlamini says: “There is no formal process as such. It is an experiment that relies on the sensitivity between the players.” He was referring to the way in which he, Xaba and other people would improvise on stage together. The […]
"I went out looking for memorialisation."
‘The process of writing in solitude is still puzzling. How am I alone when I have so many people inside me?’
"I try to make sure that wherever I am, my camera settings are right for that location and my film is fully loaded."
"I thought that by creating a ghostly image I would reflect what I was feeling inside me — a feeling heightened by the constant beating of the drum".
“The most beautiful portraits of humans often occur when a person allows you in to glimpse the vulnerability and rawness of their being.”
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"This image is important to me because it represents the day I made a conscious decision to open myself up to learning about and respecting amadlozi."
‘There is a heroism to photographing on film in the age of the fourth industrial revolution’
" I didn’t want to chase them because my goal was not to go after the wound; it was to document life in the initiation school."