Portrait session
Bo-Kaap Morning Light
Two families, three corners of the neighborhood, and about forty minutes of soft light before the tour buses arrive. Shot on a 35mm and a 50mm on Portra 400.
Read the Bo-Kaap setNot a highlight reel of stiff poses, but a set of honest photographs that still feel true to the day years later. Here is what that looks like once the work is finished.
Three recent sessions that show how the work actually runs, from a Bo-Kaap morning walk to a Winelands table that carried on past sunset. Each one comes with notes on location, light, and the gear used that day.
Portrait session
Two families, three corners of the neighborhood, and about forty minutes of soft light before the tour buses arrive. Shot on a 35mm and a 50mm on Portra 400.
Read the Bo-Kaap setFamily documentary
A slow walk from the pavilion to the tidal pool and back. No shot list, mostly handheld on a 28mm, leaning into the in-between moments rather than anything arranged.
See the promenade sessionSmall wedding
Thirty guests between the vines outside Stellenbosch, told in available light and long lenses. Morning preparations, the ceremony under the oaks, and a long table dinner past sunset.
Open the Winelands storyA finished set from Potograpiya is not a highlight reel built for a screen. It is a quiet record of how the day ran: the half-second before someone noticed the camera, the wind picking up on the Sea Point promenade, the last warm stretch of light on a Bo-Kaap wall. You get large, uncropped frames with short notes on location, light, and gear, so the story behind each picture stays readable years later.
Most of a session is spent following what is already happening. Direction stays light: a walk, a pause in the shade, a few group frames at the end if the family asks. Couples who dislike being posed usually relax within the first twenty minutes.
Every gallery carries short captions on where we stood, what the light was doing, and which lens was on the camera. It is the difference between a pretty image and one you can place in time, and it helps you see how a session is paced before you book one.
Long-term personal projects are shot on film, and selected wedding or portrait work runs alongside digital on Portra and black and white stock. It is slower, costs more per frame, and is chosen only when the light and the moment suit it.
Some images belong on a wall rather than a drive. A limited selection is available as prints, small-run zines, and framed pieces, ordered after you have lived with the gallery for a while and know which frame keeps pulling you back.
The person who walks the location with you is the person who edits the set. No handoff to a second shooter or an editing team, which keeps the tone consistent from the first frame to the last print.
Portrait sessions, small weddings, and documentary family shoots sit alongside ongoing personal work in the Winelands and along the Atlantic Seaboard. That mix is why the pictures stay honest instead of chasing whatever is trending this season.
Curious how a session is paced from first message to final gallery? Read the step-by-step process, or send your date and a rough idea through the contact page.