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My book portrays a vast humanity living on the edge of Cape Town. My book portrays a vast humanity living on the edge of Cape Town.

— David Lurie

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‘How to excavate below our conventional sight level to recover the views of myth and memory that lie beneath a surface that conceals more than it reveals, given the … limitations of the medium?”

How to capture this perspective in landscape photographs in this achingly beautiful region’

I focus on the excluded, warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy, a habitat largely constructed out of crude brick, recycled plastic, metal sheets, cardboard, cement blocks, and scrap wood, surrounded by pollution, excrement, and decay.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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