I am a retired journalist whose major passion for the past 39 years has been photography. First, street photography in London, using black-and-white film in my old Leica, graduating to landscape photography upon my return to South Africa in 1997 and, since 2017, a growing fascination for photographing abstract images by shooting through patterned glass pieces (window panes, vases, chopping boards, glass tumblers... anything which transforms the shape of the subject matter and creates "light magic") and distorted plastic, fabrics et al. The resulting images remind me of my restricted (and fuzzily abstract) view of the world around me as a child born with severe astigmatism and not prescribed spectacles until the age of nine (no, I don't know how that was allowed to happen!) - I was lost in my own little blurry world and forced to use my imagination, an asset for which I am now extremely grateful!
