Update on Photomarathon SA – Johannesburg

So after a month, the winners of the Photomarathon, held on the 24th Feb 2007 have been announced, there was an opening of the exhibition held on the 15th March.

There were some really exciting and dramatic pictures, some really unusual ones, some were just plain weird and bordered on the macabre, but generally I think it was a huge sucess. I think it was a unique idea and a wonderful concept and for that, thanks must go to Babak who organsied the whole thing along with the Bag Factory. Babak has a few blogs, you can check them out here.

To look at all the submissions (66 photographers entered) take a look here.

As for me, I was really quite surprised to find that one of my photos had been selected as a joint second place winner for the competition. The category was for the theme technophobia, click here to see it.

Jozi Photomarathon – 24 Feb 2007

This past weekend I took part in the johannesburg photomarathon. Basically a bunch of photographers were let loose in JHB city and had to take 1 photo of a given theme. Twelve themes were given over the day and each photographer had to hand in a total of twelve photos. Not so easy, the themes were obscure and made you think, they gave us things like “alien” or “mother city” or “running with scissors”. The obvious temptation was to be literal, but i went for a more arty or expressive approach. I will be uploading the pics shortly, so take a look at my flickr pics on the left and you will see them. Also you can visit www.photographysa.com for more info. There will be an exhibition and a prizegiving on the 15th March, I will post more details as they come.