Andre

So, who’s this André guy, with the Nikon surgically attached to his hand?

I’m a left-brain engineering type, who only recently discovered the artist who had been hiding inside, watching me be all detailed and pedantic, and probably laughing his ass off at my OCD-ness. Well, now he’s out. Loud and proud, shooting up a storm, and on a near-vertical  learning curve.
Couple of things about me (photo-things, that is…)

1.  I shoot Nikon bodies and Sigma lenses.
2.  In the past, I’ve concentrated on landscape photography, and pretty much avoided portraiture of any kind, but that’s changing…
3.  I can’t operate a photocopier to save my life.
4.  I firmly believe that all the best photo’s are yet to be taken. Mine especially.

Why the ART project?

I love this country. We have it all to do. Anything is possible. But even in this exciting, colourful, joyous South Africa, there are people, many, many people, who have no voice. Who are, largely, unseen. Every 4 years or so, they come out in long lines to choose their leaders. And then they go back to their  homes, and get on with their lives.  TV cameras don’t show them getting on with it.  Paparazzi don’t dog their every move, in the hope of snapping a grainy, super-tele pic, to feed the media machine. But they’re there. Their seconds and minutes and days, the same length as all of ours.
The ART project, for me, is an opportunity to ‘see’  those folk, through my lens,  and hopefully show them to people who might never see them otherwise.