I hope this year I can return to Cape Town

10th April 2025

I hope this year I can return to Cape Town to see these amazing young people.

Thank you so much to everyone who has worked so hard, and supported this project so far xx

Making our way home from school is a simple, nostalgic, universal activity we can all relate to.
This project explores the tumultuous public lives of young people, in the gang-governed Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa, where their daily commute carries the risk of death.
Together we walk to and home from school avoiding the daily threat of gang crossfire.
Using handmade, lo-fi experimental techniques, this project explores young lives shaped by the constant threat of gang crossfire.                                                                                                            Through poetry, analog photography, drawings, collages, and cyanotypes, we create an intimate portrayal of adolescence amidst stark social divides.
A partnership to produce material that offers a rare insight into their confusing and challenging world of adolescence.