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Bass Culture

Michael Wyeth

Located at 88 Shortmarket Street, The Base was a popular mixed-race nightclub and live music venue right in the heart of apartheid-era Cape Town. No wonder the cops didn’t like it.

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Body of Knowledge

Araminta de Clermont

A record of one photographer’s dogged pursuit and respectful encounter with former prisoners living in Cape Town’s “hidden places” – homeless shelters, derelict tenements, bus stations and township shebeens.

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Family Portrait

Roger Jardine

In a style both restrained and unadorned, the photographer introduces some of the players in a musical story from and about Durban, a city of unusual talent and deep-seated ennui.

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Zulu Nation

Jamel Shabazz

From the archive of one of hip hop’s earliest chroniclers, a visual diary of the streets of New York City during the 1970s and 80s, a halcyon period before the scourge of crack.

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  • 01. Brooklyn

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    Brooklyn, 1984

  • 02. Brooklyn

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    Brooklyn

  • 03. Brooklyn

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    Brooklyn, 1980

  • 04. Brooklyn

    04. Brooklyn, 1981

  • 05. Brooklyn

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    Brooklyn, 1980

  • 06. Brooklyn

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    Brooklyn, 1984

  • 07. Lower East Side

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    Lower East Side, Manhattan, 1980

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Zulu Nation

Jamel Shabazz

From the archive of one of hip hop’s earliest chroniclers, a visual diary of the streets of New York City during the 1970s and 80s, a halcyon period before the scourge of crack.

About Jamel Shabazz: Born in Brooklyn (1960), Shabazz is a photographer, youth activist and long-time member of the New York City Department of Corrections. Active as a photographer since age 15, he came to prominence with the publication of his first book, Back in the Days (2001), a document of New York’s early hip hop scene (1977-82). He has since published two further books, The Last Sunday in June (2003) and A Time Before Crack (2005), excerpted here. Ken Johnson, writing in the New York Times, has described Shabazz, who lists Robert Capa, James van der Zee, Chester Higgins and Eli Reed as amongst his early influences, as “the best kind of photojournalist: one driven simply by curiosity about other human beings”. Jamel Shabazz lives in Long Island, New York.

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  • 01. Fataar Family

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    Fataar Family, 2008

  • 02. Roly Struckmeyer

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    Roly Struckmeyer, 2008

  • 03. Ross Turpin

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    Ross Turpin, 2008

  • 04. Eva Jackson

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    Eva Jackson, 2008

  • 05. Nathan Redpath

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    Nathan Redpath, 2008

  • 06. Steve Fataar

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    Steve Fataar, 2008

  • 07. Syd Kitchen

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    Syd Kitchen, 2008

  • 08. Clown

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    Clown, 2008

  • 09. Superhero

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    Superhero, 2008

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Family Portraitx

Roger Jardine

In a style both restrained and unadorned, the photographer introduces some of the players in a musical story from and about Durban, a city of unusual talent and deep-seated ennui.

About Roger Jardine: Born in Johannesburg (1971), Jardine is a self-taught photographer and graphic designer. After completing his studies in photolithography, with a trade apprenticeship in printing, he worked for a variety of advertising agencies and design studios before settling, in 2002, at disturbance, a Durban-based studio where he is now a partner. His large photographic archive, much of it unpublished, evidences a common interest in portraiture. A recent collaborative project, Along the Way (2008), documents inhabitants living along a culturally diverse walking route that starts in Cato Manor and journeys to the harbour via Warwick Triangle, a busy transit area. The body of work shown here is excerpted from an ongoing series of photographs focussing on Durban’s musical and artistic community. Roger Jardine lives and works in Durban.

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  • 01. Omar

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    Omar, also known as “Chappies” after a well-known South African bubble gum brand, was a “king” in prison, commanding absolute respect. He now sleeps rough beneath an incomplete flyover and sells wine to other street people.

  • 02. Martin

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    Martin, whose alcoholic mother neglected him as a child, prompting the farewell tattoo to her on his forehead, is captain of a homeless football team that beat Australia 9-1 in a Melbourne fixture of the 2008 Homeless Football World Cup.

  • 03. Frank

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    Frank, 52, was sentenced to three years in prison but after murdering an inmate spent a total of 27 years in prison. The faded tattoo on his forehead reads, “the money is mine the bullet is yours”.

  • 04. Stranger

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    Stranger, once a highly respected member of a prison gang, is the subject of mythmaking and conjecture: some say his curled first is the outcome of his first visit to prison when he desperately attempted to hold onto all his ill-gotten gains.

  • 05. Moerse

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    Moerse, a scrap-metal collector, spends his days with other strollers in the middle of a traffic circle in a Cape Town industrial area of Cape Town. According to prison lore, a tattooed insect, especially on the face or nose, indicates a dangerous person, something Moerse tearfully denied during this shoot.

  • 06. Ali

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    Ali, a cleaner/handyman at St George’s Cathedral, lives in a bare room at the rear of the church. It is always scrubbed clean, his blankets neatly rolled-up. The crowns on his shoulders identify him as once having been a high-ranking figure in the 28’s.

  • 07. Fahiek

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    Fahiek spent 27 years in prison. He was released in October 2007. A hit man, he spent a year living rough (with his dog Sheeba) before returning to his old was profession. He was recently murdered after collecting his fee for a contract.

  • 08. Charles

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    Charles has been in and out of prison since he was 13. The penis tattoo is specific to the 28’s gang and relates to their practice of taking wives (“wyfies”) in prison. The small tattoos MUM and DAD are acronyms for “Man Under Money” and “Day after Day”.

  • 09. Mr Green

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    Mr Green, an inmate for 18 years, got his nickname from the colour of his prison tattoos. A resident of Capricorn settlement, he earns his living as a car guard on Sunrise in Muizenberg.

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Body of Knowledge

Araminta de Clermont

A record of one photographer’s dogged pursuit and respectful encounter with former prisoners living in Cape Town’s “hidden places” – homeless shelters, derelict tenements, bus stations and township shebeens.

About Araminta de Clermont: Born in London (1971), De Clermont studied architecture before enrolling in photography at Cape Town’s Ruth Prowse School of Art. Her photojournalism, which focuses on the visual currencies of group identity and formation, has been widely published. After Life, her debut solo exhibition, presented at Cape Town’s João Ferreira Gallery and excerpted here, is a document of ex-prisoners and their tattoos. The bodily marks convey various meanings. For instance, tattoos showing hand salutes – three or two fingers or a thumb – indicate membership in one of the three chapters of the Numbers prison gangs. A recovering heroin addict, De Clermont says the project made her consider her own biography and “how it would be if we all had our past mistakes permanently emblazoned across our faces”. Araminta de Clermont lives and works in Cape Town.

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  • 01. Thandi Vilakazi

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    Thandi Vilakazi, backing vocalist and dancer with Sipho Hotstix Mabuse

  • 02.Simba Morri

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    Drummer with Kenyan guitarist Simba Morri

  • 03.Gerard O’Brien

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    Guitarist Gerard O’Brien of The Genuines

  • 04. Jannie Van Tonder and Winston Nyunda

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    Jannie Van Tonder and Winston Nyunda of Winston’s Jive Mixup

  • 05.Sipho Duma

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    Keyboardist Sipho Duma of Winston’s Jive Mixup

  • 06. Sipho Duma

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    Keyboardist Sipho Duma of Winston’s Jive Mixup

  • 07. Max Mtambo

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    Vocalist Max Mtambo (with sunglasses) and keyboardist Mthandeni Mthembu of the band Jama

  • 08. Phillip Tabane

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    Phillip Tabane of Malombo

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Bass Culture

Bass Culture Michael Wyeth

Located at 88 Shortmarket Street, The Base was a popular mixed-race nightclub and live music venue right in the heart of apartheid-era Cape Town. No wonder the cops didn’t like it.

About Michael Wyeth: Born in Cape Town (1952), Wyeth studied graphic design at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, majoring in photography. He has exhibited mostly in Cape Town, notably on SA Photo Statements, at Iziko South African National Gallery (1988), and most recently on the Month of Photography, October 2008. Owner of Imago Visual, a graphic design and photography business, he is currently working towards his first solo photographic exhibition of recent works, scheduled for 2009. This portfolio of The Base/Jazz Den documents the establishment of the club and musicians/performers that appeared there over a period of two years in the late 1980s. Apart from sporadic appearances in newspapers at the time they were made, this body of work has not been shown before.

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