Stylist Michelle Maguire and photographer Kelsey McClellan got together to create a photographic series called Wardrobe Snacks, inspired by quiet moments of casual (and colour-coded) culinary enjoyment. McClellan says that “Wardrobe Snacks was inspired by diners lacking the luxury of being seated at a table. They’re informal — perhaps even a bit awkward — spaces as …
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Wardrobe Snacks
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#BriseSoleilSA competition
Not too long ago, when I wrote one of my BEST THINGS posts about all kinds of breeze brick walls and screens, I started the Instagram hashtag #brisesoleilSA, hoping to start a record of brise soleil walls and screens across South Africa. As you’ve posted your pics, we’ve been putting them onto a Google map. Take …
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OH Thursdays: Customs House
If you live in Cape Town and drive a car, you’ll have driven past Customs House many times as you set off away from the city on Nelson Mandela Boulevard. It’s on the harbour side of the elevated freeway, and as you drive past, you may have spotted a portion of an interesting blue tile mosaic, frustratingly …
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Best Things 04: Stripes
It must be the late summer light that has had me taking lots of stripy photos lately. Stripes are great and graphic and strong, but with a bit of colour, they’re a LOT more fun. I thought I’d look around the web for stripes for this week’s Best Things post. Clockwise, from Left: + Kat & Roger’s …
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In the Press: My City
Are you planning a trip to Cape Town some time? I’ve got a couple of things to recommend, and I put them into this article for the April issue of The Simple Things magazine. Read it here.
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The idea that seeds the pattern
It was 30 years ago that Susan Sontag wrote that “Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted”. Imagine what she’d have to say about the Instagram epidemic! But I hope to be forgiven, at least in part, for my compulsive snap-snap-snapping, by putting …
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Instagenic at Chandler House
It’s First Thursdays Cape Town tonight, and of course our shop is open, but I’m hoping to also pop by the Voorkamer Gallery of Chandler House, where the month-long INSTAGENIC photo exhibition is opening. I’ll have 9 of my photos on show, along with the pics of 8 other photographers. It’s very exciting for me …
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OH Tours: Hans Niehaus Gallery
On Thursday last week, thanks to OH Thursdays, I was lucky enough to snoop inside a building that has always intrigued me – the decades-long work in progress that is Hans Niehaus Gallery on Vineyard Road in Claremont. Apologies for some of the poor photos (I only had my phone camera with me). The Cape …
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Colours of Echevaria
We have loads of succulents at home and on the studio roof garden, but I have never been very good at remembering their botanical names. However, the name of the Echevaria genus – named after the 18th century Mexican botanical artist Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy (thanks, Wikipedia) – has managed to stick. That’s because all of a sudden, …
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