Notes on location, light, and gear
Every set carries short captions about where it was shot, how the light behaved, and which lenses were used. You can see the pacing of a session before you book one, rather than guessing from a highlight reel.
Notes from couples and families, published sets, and the small honest details that stay with people long after the shoot. Film grain included.
Proof here is not a wall of logos. It is the places and people that have handled these photographs before you did, from local editorial pages to the print shop in Woodstock that runs the zines.
Editorial
Two Bo-Kaap portrait sets and one Winelands wedding ran in local weekend features between 2023 and 2024, printed with the location and light notes intact.
The zines and framed editions are pulled and mounted here. Same shop, same paper stock, same person checking the grain on every run.
Stockists
A small number of zines sit on the shelves of two independent bookshops in Cape Town, restocked by hand whenever a new set is finished.
Referrals
Most bookings now arrive through people who sat for a session and passed the details on. That is the referral list, and it is short on purpose.
Collaboration
Every roll from the personal projects and the documentary sessions is developed and scanned here. Dust and grain stay in the scans.
Venues
A handful of Stellenbosch and Constantia venues keep the studio on their recommended list for couples who want coverage without a shot list.
Most people arrive at a session with a folder of reference images and a quiet worry about looking awkward. The work here is built around that worry. Instead of directing every shoulder and chin, the sessions follow what is already happening: a child running the length of the promenade, a couple walking through Bo-Kaap before the tour buses fill the streets, a small wedding where the nerves and the laughter land in the same frame.
Every set carries short captions about where it was shot, how the light behaved, and which lenses were used. You can see the pacing of a session before you book one, rather than guessing from a highlight reel.
A good part of the personal work is shot on film, and the scans keep their dust and grain. Skin looks like skin. Rooms look like rooms. Nothing is smoothed into a version of the day that did not happen.
The framed pieces on the Woodstock studio wall come from actual shoots, not stock libraries. If a print is available to order, it traces back to a specific afternoon, a specific family, a specific stretch of coastline.
"We walked through Bo-Kaap for an hour and forgot the camera was there. The pictures look like the morning we actually had, not a version of it."
"Our children were allowed to run instead of pose. That alone was worth it. The Sea Point set still gets pulled up on the fridge every few weeks."