This is a visual enquiry into particular ways of relating to reality, for which photography not just simply records or reproduces, but also speculates, transfigures, creates space for reinterpretation and reimagining futures. Otherwise, in my day-to-day job, I am a researcher and policy analyst with expertise in pluralist economics for climate change, sustainability, and social justice. I also have an interest in the (social) science - arts interface, and in pursuing projects that combine research with photography.
The photography is quite diverse in its topical approach, though with a soft spot for the urban environment, people, abandoned places, industrial architecture, patterns and colours, forms of beauty, and moody ambients. The onus is on composition, simplicity, varying angles, and on, what is hoped, the creation of inquisitive and stimulating images.
Both digital (including iPhone) and analogue photography are pursued. The prints are sometimes combined, for exhibition purposes, with other contextual forms of display or viewer-image interactions, going beyond conventional framing.
Awards, publications, and other achievements
2023: Honourable mention, Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA), for the image "Life indoors during Covid19" (see the "Honourable mention" section)
2022: Published essay with photography "Shaping climate solutions through architecture and arts", Business and Arts South Africa, BIZART_ZA, Johannesburg, April 2022
2021: Published essay with photography "All together: How?", The Mint Magazine, published by Promoting Economic Pluralism, September 2021
2016: Winner of the competition "Bruxelles en transition: Photoreportage d'une société en mouvement", organised by The Francophone Parliament in Brussels. Competition finalist selected to exhibit with a series of 3 photos.
2015: International Color Awards, The Journal - Winners Collection No.5, Part Two, Online Publication, Beverley Hills, CA, United States, page 235
2014: PHOTOcentric 2014 publication, New York: Garrison Art Center
2014: "The Wow Factor: Architecture, Economics & Development", in A. Johaardien (Ed.) UJ Arts & Culture Magazine (Spring/Summer Issue 06), University of Johannesburg, South Africa
2014: "What's Art Got To Do With It? Art, Democracy & Development", in A. Johaardien (Ed.) UJ Arts & Culture Magazine (05 The Freedom Issue), University of Johannesburg, South Africa
2013: Competition Finalist and Exhibitor (with one image "Take a seat"), Royal Photographic Society International Print Exhibition 156 that toured UK between July 2013 and March 2014
2013: Competition Finalist and Exhibitor (with two images "Yellow Living" and "Urban green spaces" ), CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2013 organised by the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management together with Atkins that toured UK between April and September 2013
2012: Winner of the Ratiu Foundation Roundtable Competition Award 2012, which was granted for organising an interactive art photography project entitled "Fluid perceptions" at the Romanian Cultural Centre in London, UK
8th Annual International Color Awards, Honourable Mention
