'So, what have you heard about Oppikoppi?" I ask Narch, Mike and Disco of Cape Town-based rap-electronic outfit PH Fat. It's four o'clock on a Sunday afternoon and it's their first time at Africa's biggest rock festival. It's my first time too, except I've already been in camp for two days and have the dirty boots and hangover to prove it.

"Uh, we heard it's really dusty and cold. The messiest, biggest festival in South Africa," Mike, or maybe Narch, says. "We heard it gets messy in a brandy and coke kind of way," Narch, or maybe Mike, adds. "And that everyone shouts 'Oppikoppi' a lot," they finish.

~ Nechama Brodie

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proudly shot with a Mamiya C330 & Fujifilm 6x4.5 on 120mm film

 

 

 

 

Thembilihle is one of the poorest informal settlements in Johannesburg. A politicised community, residents have over the past several years protested about the lack of service delivery, and electricity cutoffs. In March, Palesa Sejeso was burned by a paraffin stove, used for cooking, a week after her brother Thabiso was shot in the face with a rubber bullet by police during protests. Tsholofelo Pheno, a 13 year old, 7th Grade student of Sharicrest Primary School, a prefect at her school, hopes that an education will change her circumstances. 

On assignment with L'Express - France. April 2010

 

Images made around a Harvard Magazine assignment in Kwazulu Natal. April 2010.

 

 

Chosen Few are South Africa's only black lesbian soccer team. Founded to increase activism around gender issues among young black lesbian women, the team prepare to compete in the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne.

On assignment with L'Express France. April 2010.

 

 

On assignment with Challenges magazine - France. May 2010.

 

 

In April I joined the Alexandra Community Policing Forum on their weekend patrols through one of South Africa's most notorious townships. The CPF patrol the dark streets every weekend night, performing stop & searches and responding to requests for help to supplement policing activities in Alex.

April 2010

 
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