jhb.gp: 2010

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

finally!

i've been at wits university now for 6 years.. going on 7 and this is the first photos i've taken of the braamfontein cemetery, it's right across the road

what a beautiful place!!

the view from above

here are some pics taken at and around constitution hill in jhb

:)

public art in hillbrow (c)tania olsson 2010

public art hillbrow (c)tania olsson 2010

reconstruction (c)tania olsson 2010

angel welcoming you to hillbrow (c)tania olsson 2010

the new old south africa (c)tania olsson 2010

old fort water tower (c)tania olsson 2010


hillbrow (c)tania olsson 2010

Friday, October 8, 2010

joburg ramble

i love taking photos!
i love it so much that when my camera is at home i feel like i'm not fully clothed..
insane!

here are some of my favourites from the last week or so:

traffic on barry

there's something comforting about seeing graffiti everywhere, like there's still someone fighting the dying of the light..

spring

so i was playing around with effects right...

public art in jozi.. looks like it's sponsored by the lotto? if so, good on them!

all images (c) tania olsson @ shutterproof photography

if anyone has any cool ideas for photo projects please please let me know!

peace! x

as long as i can remember the movies have played a very important part in my creative life.
the freedom created on celluloid opens doors to the most beautiful and most disturbing aspects of our ability to communicate and sends us whirling into far distant spaces of consciousness.
from the very first time that i walked into a cinema, popcorn in hand i've felt a part of this process. i saw the animated jungle book and to this day, whenever i hear louis prima i fell young again and innocent, connected to another time not only in my own life, but in time itself... another universe.
from the mad professors and superheroes to the disappointed lovers, the royalty, the bad music, the good music, the realisation of our dreams, the incredible strength of the human body and soul, the distant lands, the deep caves, the beginnings and space, they make us living in the 20th century, who we are.
i doubt that even one person exists on this earth that doesn't have a single memory of the flicks and through this the medium becomes the hand of change.

when recognise the joy that can be gained by interacting with alternate spaces in this way.. the movies seem very, very different indeed...

making bacon

here is a small selection of the function pictures i've taken over the last few weeks.
i'm not going to label these, just say that these images are all taken while working for Shutterproof Photograhy, an assosiation that i started with my friend and collegue, justin du piesanie...
hope you like them
:)