Lister Medical Building

15/02/2018

GAME IS OVER BRA.....

29/01/2018

29/01/2018

Johannesberg-based photographer Alastair McLachlan decided to investigate the city the heart of the matter, so to speak, and made the 19th floor of the Lister Medical Building his home. From this vantage point and over more than 12 years he witnessed and tried to understand and make sense of

29/01/2018

PSSA_Congress_2017 : photowalk hosted by The Photographic Society of South Africa and Anton Bosman.

29/01/2018

Down to business : The evolution, deep psychology and twists of fate that inform the making of my new business card.

13/04/2017

I still feel uncomfortable. I don't find taking photos of people easy. Getting in the mix yesterday, on some level, was a deliberate choice to confront my comfort. Part of and my concerns about the state of SA, leaves me, I feel, no choice but to step outside my comfort, to seek solidarity beyond my bubble, and to open myself up to sharing and being confronted, in ways that interrogate perceptions. Not everyone returned my enthusiasm for random conversations, but as tool, my camera was a good introduction, and people, on the whole, were eager to share, if not with me, then of themselves.

On the walk back to Church Square, I held myself back, when scuffles started ahead, but I edged warily forward instead of opting for side streets.
Some shop fronts had been vandalized. Those that did the vandalizing were being “disciplined”. (I heard suggestions of ulterior motives for discrediting the marchers).
It was ugly, some might say they deserved what they got, but I still can’t help my impression that they were utterly poor and desperate.

The last few images in my album illustrate what I saw. There is one with two bystanders behind a metal gate. One face is grimacing, one seems unaffected.
This photo, and the way it won’t let me go, lets me know I’m a grimacer. I feel an emotional tie with my subject, and a guilt for being an “objective” bystander.
I can rationalize the merit of the document, and i can admire the length to which other, braver, photographers go to in pursuit of sharing uncomfortable truths.

I can justify my desire for self preservation on account of responsibilities to family and friends… I’m not overly reckless, I just can’t turn a blind eye anymore.
I understand there will be casualties, in comfort and even lives, but more than that I understand the stakes are extremely high.

It must be said that those dishing out “discipline”, were a minority and that the larger crowd, were more eager to es**rt and deliver the vandals to protective police custody.
Is there a line someone can cross and not deserve mercy, protection or empathy? yes, that’s why I march.

Will it make all our problems go away so we can go back to being comfortable again? No, that’s why I choose discomfort.

Is it worth it and is there hope? I’ll let my other photos answer that.

13/04/2017

Not For Sale

NFS

13/04/2017

Images of signs and people at the Pretoria march against Zuma and corruption - 12 April, 2017. (Please tag yourself! and message me for high resolution copies.)

Images of signs and people at the Pretoria march against Zuma and corruption - 12 April, 2017. (Please tag yourself! and message me for high resolution copies.)

It's been said the rainbows dead,..or that there never was one...

07/04/2017

Images of signs and people at the Joburg march against Zuma and corruption - 7 April, 2017. (Please tag yourself! and message me for high resolution copies.)

To be clear, I did not march for the DA, I marched in Joburg because I’m from Joburg. Today was not my first march, but I marched today in guilt and penance for my previous inactivity - I have felt like i didn’t have a say….
but that’s a shameful excuse for and an uneducated one for , and, if I were a DA supporter, a delusional one for .

But I marched today! Because not saying something is not ok.

I marched in solidarity and support, not for any kind of factional or race agenda and not for my own agenda.

I marched today in support of our constitution and everything it holds dear, and in solidarity with humans that hold humanity dear... and I marched for those that still feel they don’t have a say.

I marched for equal justice, for compassion, empathy, common decency & freedom
I marched because & I marched against Zuma, corruption, state capture and crazy money diverting nuclear schemes.

21/10/2016

BACK TO THE FUTURE
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walkabout tomorrow 11am
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Event link in bio ⬆️
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Only R1984 per print, going, going, gone tomorrow!