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    Film: The Gap

    The gap between rich and poor have never been - even in our troubled past here in South Africa - as great as it is now. I generally don't like photographing unfortunate people, and tried here not to focus as much on the sitting man, as on the contrast of the scene. I took this picture while...
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    In Perspective, Planet: A Recursion of misplaced values (photographing beggars)

    Hi All, I don't usually take to photographing those less fortunate than I am (especially as, here in Johannesburg, there are so many), but I could not resist the symbolism, composition and colours of this scene. After asking his permission, I realised that I had in fact built up a mental...
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