ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This photo was taken at the Taal Monument located in Paarl, South Africa. The brutalist architecture of the monument is typical of the 70's. The monument commemorates Afrikaans being declared an official language of South Africa separate from Dutch.

The silhouetted person (who is my father) is demonstrating scale, creating a mood and story as well as contributing to making the image surreal.

In both the composition and post processing of the image I wished to convey an outer worldly feel. A place of importance, a central meeting point or perhaps a place of worship. In searching to further develop surreality the processing of the images has been done in black and white.

AUTHOR
Photography is the medium with which I embody the perspectives I have in mind and share my sense of aesthetics. Through light, shadow, form, composition and negative space I seek to transform the everyday mundane into marvellous wishing to offer the viewer a moment of escapism. Most of my artistic expression is shared within three principle genres, namely architecture, landscape and street photography approaching each in a purist manner in wanting to tell stories with minimal elements.

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