About
False Bay and the Cape Peninsula
I have worked in and around photography since finishing a Bachelor of Journalism at Rhodes University back when film cameras were still used. In this time I have had writing and photography published nationally and internationally and I have been lucky enough to have exhibited my photography throughout South Africa as well as in Europe.
I currently live in Dublin where I am employed by the Chester Beatty Library as a photographer. I am responsible for imaging the Library’s collection of objects. This includes such fascinating things as biblical papyri, unique manuscripts from all over the world, jade tablets and even Japanese scrolls. It is a vast, intoxicating collection of the world’s cultures.
I've long believed that a good photographer doesn't necessarily need to know all there is to know about cameras or even photography but what they do need to know is how to uncode life in a way that their audience finds coherent and interesting. In this context I'm most interested in the ways that history focuses our present. Sometimes I explore this through the landscape, sometimes through portraiture and words and sometimes even through the structures that we create.
Selected Photographic Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
Eastern Cape Vignettes
Ron Belling Gallery
Port Elizabeth
2010
Forgotten Faces
Red Location Museum
Port Elizabeth
Permanent Exhibition
Ireland - How Extraordinarily Ordinary
Dom Muz Gallery
Torun, Poland
2005
Group Exhibitions
Home Truths: Domestic Interiors from South African Collections
Exhibited at Iziko South African National Gallery
2016
Photography and National Trauma in South Africa
Gallery University Stellenbosch
Part of the Cape Town Month of Photography
2014
Signs of Life
Young Blood Gallery, Cape Town
2014
Century of Dispossession 1913-2013
Centre for African Studies Gallery
University of Cape Town
2013
The Beehive
Exhibited at the Castle of Good Hope
Part of the South African Month of Photography
2012
Expressions 2012
Exhibited in Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown
Part of the National Arts Festival
2012
Skin
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum
2011
Curatorial and Research Work
C-Stunners & Black Mamba
Artist - Cyrus Kabiru
Exhibited at SMAC Gallery, Cape Town
2015
Role - Production Manager
In Search Of...
Artist - Musa N. Nxumalo
Exhibited at SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch
2015
Role - Production Manager
Umhlaba 1913-2013 commemorating 100 years of the 1913 Land Act
Exhibited at the Iziko South African National Gallery
2013
Role - Researcher / Technical Assistant / Curatorial Assistant
Land Divided Conference
University of Cape Town
2013
Role - Presented a paper entitled, 'The camera, trauma and the landscape'
The Social Landscape
Market Photo Workshop
Role - Researcher