field studies

The Kgalagadi carries the energy of endurance. The slow persistence of life at its threshold. The Tankwa Karoo, by contrast, feels stripped to its bones, a terrain where light and shadow construct the only architecture. Both regions evoke an emotional clarity, a kind of stillness that reveals what remains when all else is removed.

These spaces reflect a different aspect of the land’s memory, not the visible traces of conflict or human history, but the deep time that precedes us. In these expanses, the photograph becomes a record of presence: a moment of standing inside the vastness, listening to what emptiness has to say.