Skating through life

Having been living in London for a couple of months, I began looking for subjects to photograph, subjects that I was genuinely interested in. I always had a fascination with the talents that we are able to harness and exhibit to society around us wether we choose to recognise or not. So I went out searching for anything that really impressed me and found a variety of individuals displaying their talent with absolute creative freedom and respect for each other. We were all strangers supporting and admiring each other's abilities, no feeling of being unwelcome. Although this is the first time I have shown these photographs, they were the first images I really felt I was documenting just raw talent at it's greatest. Each individual in each photograph has their own way of expressing themselves. These are film photographs which I developed, and hope you enjoy.

The Adventure continues

Well it's official, I have moved back to my beloved country, home, Zimbabwe and it's the most peaceful feeling I have had in a long time. The change in pace has allowed me to reflect on my past experiences. I had ups and downs, some I could swallow and let go but others just hit me out of nowhere. Friends: to me they are the most important extension of the self, they are the special individuals that nourish your soul and enable you to try understand and give to others. But the most important thing to learn is that some people you may call friends may turn out to not be the people you thought they were. But hey fuck it, life will hit you with so many punches, and you just have find the strength to give it one big upper cut!! Plus what goes around comes around ten times harder!

It is now time to continue with my adventures in life. I have had the most insightful week since returning back home. I have met gallery curators, Art directors, choreographers, and fellow photographers, as well as activists determined to enlighten the Zimbabwean mind as well as empowering the people of Zimbabwe through several NGO work. I have a really good feeling for the future, and it's only going to get more exciting!

In terms of my photography, I am currently in transition, I am planning the construction of my first personal darkroom, and will be out in the field for the next two years documenting the country and continent I live in. By getting access to different social groups I will be able to document their stories, hopes and essence of Zimbabwe 'The People'. It is going to be a long road, but I am so ready to continue on my journey, watch this space for new photographs and social updates on what's going on in Zimbabwe, at this critical moment in our history!

So despite the many ups and downs, I have discovered that it was all for a reason, to remind me that my time is way too valuable to waste on individuals that have no time for me. Peace out :)

Film Photographs

I have this unshifting dedication to film photography, in a day an age where things are so accessible and the digital age tends to put our lives on fast forward, I highly recommend anyone to spend some time in the darkroom, see how life stands still for a second, if only for a few hours, you are in control of your own world. Maybe it's just me but the experience is a beautiful thing!

Let me breathe

Kill the Messenger

http://www.documentary-log.com/d266-kill-the-messenger/

Understanding our world

It hits me hard every time I watch a new documentary, it's as though I have opened a new window of knowledge. As frightening as it can be to be challenged about our lives and the world as we know it, it is also a liberating experience. I urge any one to watch as many documentaries as you can. About anything you are interested in.

Politics, History and Religion are the key subjects that I am interested in, they are important subjects that I feel help explain how we got to the state that we are in. With crisis after crisis, famine and war, I have to stop and think... who is paying for all of this destruction? who is profiting off massacres, bomb blasts and invasions... and the most important question is WHY?

I will be posting links to documentary sites which I know will help spark a reaction... start talking to friends and family, your teachers... aren't you just a little curious to know exactly what you are being told ???

05:11

Sitting on my roof all i can see is a beauty, a light so vivid yet soothing, a dawn of a new day it's just nature. what do we perceive this world to truly mean, is it the concrete jungle we swing through everyday, has the true meaning of life lost it's self in the acid eroding swamp of 'words'. with so many different headings, fonts, we are sucked into a world of digits and numbers, moving when told to, standing by watching life just go by. next time you are reading a newspaper, magazine, just read the headings first, how does it make you feel and let me know.

I am off to another place, a place to create, learn and listen to the charms of life and the pure essence of human love.... nature

Much love and respect

Contemplation

For a long time I kept a lot of my thoughts to myself, but words are only another medium in which to express oneself. With these photographs, I am provoking emotion, the binding elements of society and the greater illusion the 'life' that we live in. I am asking the question why do we swallow and digest the abstract culture of construed ideology and thought? and Are you comfortable? 

Opanarise

Phonectic for Open Your Eyes

I discovered this music as a gift of life, it captures the essence of the human emotions, sensitivity and enlightens the confused mind. Opanarise has injected a new flow of creativity within me, and has and will continue to inspired many. I spread this knowledge with Love and Respect for this collaboration 

opanarise.com

This is the beginning of a project, where I began exploring the many contradictions we live in.  I thought it would be interesting to take what we use and read everyday, and some how express how it made me feel. Using photography, light and different props, my aim is to provoke the viewer to look much closer to what we are fed everyday. Take from this image what you may, I prefer not to title this series just yet...