Potograpiya started as a way to slow down. Most people who sit for a portrait arrive with a rehearsed smile and a list of things they think they should do. The work here goes the other way: fewer instructions, more room for a session to find its own shape. A family walking the Sea Point promenade, a couple getting ready in a Woodstock flat, a small wedding under the oaks outside Stellenbosch. None of it needs to be staged to be worth keeping.

That approach shapes how the practice runs day to day. The kit stays compact so a session can move through a Bo-Kaap street or across Winelands farmland without a production crew trailing behind. Film sits alongside digital work, which gives longer personal projects a slower rhythm and a different kind of attention. Studio days in Woodstock offer a quieter indoor option when the weather turns, and travel across Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal is possible when a date lines up.