Tag: Marc Shoul

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    Marc Shoul – Brakpan

    Marc Shoul Brakpan Brakpan is a small town that lies on the East Rand of Gauteng, sandwiched between Boksburg, Benoni and Springs. A once-prosperous mining community, today there are pawnshops, roa…

    via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/03/marc-shoul-brakpan/

    Here there is a peacefulness and relaxed country town feel, without the stress about what tomorrow may bring.  The people of Brakpan live in the now but are still bound by the constraints of the past.

  • Marc Shoul: Looking for Complex Images That Transport

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    Link: The Leica Camera

    Marc Shoul is a South African photographer, born in 1975 in Port Elizabeth. Interested in exploring social issues, four years ago he began photographing the city of Brakpan, which is a 45-minute drive from Johannesburg. Street scenes and more intimate portraits compose a personal portrayal of a place that is “anchored in time, the same, but its own” — as the photographer characterized it in the following interview — stumbling between a heavy past and an uncertain present.