the madam, the kids and mavis

the madam, the kids and mavis
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this land is so vast and so tinged with irony, that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true

19h22 Tuesday
26, January
2010
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apologies to jimmy ferrel, park, mother, children, surrogate mother, circa 1950 1994 2010 2050 2094
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13 Comments
 
  1. NguJaz

    ei san!

  2. lebogang nkoane

    … okay I found what I wanted to say: powerfull.

    *can't put any of the other thoughts running through my mind.

  3. Palapala

    About Life.
    Some have a good 1, another simple; just to serve.

  4. Karabo_Ngoatle

    i like

  5. Uno

    Agree with Lebogang, very powerful...
    The "empty" space between them says so much... it's a sweet but tense moment, maybe because they have their backs turned against one another, maybe because us, the watchers, if conscious of the "irony of this land", can't look at this image without feeling a certain unease and confusion: am I being unfair and arriving at conclusions without knowing these people or am I allowed to arrive at certain conclusions out of the majority of other situations...
    Excelent thought provoking image, very well chosen moment and words...(clicks heart talking with himself trying to put his thoughts in order)

  6. Sam Buk

    "circa 1950, 1994, 2010, 2050, 2094"----true

  7. MothMan

    ilike

  8. Kunta Kinte

    There's a picture like this at my grandma's, cool picture, though I don't know how I feel about it

  9. MothMan

    @kunta...there is a definite 'colonial' feel about it - but its not offensive or disparaging (defintely not intended by grapher)...perhaps its cos we live in a generation where a nanny is a nanny/a housekeeper is a housekeeper/a gardener is a gardener - they just all happen to be black African and that is their livelihood or rather that is their reality....i do like the irony of the chrono reference tho:this could have been a nouveau black housewife with 'mavis' -

    1994 - 2094

  10. Khumbelo

    captured!

  11. Buchu

    @UP I like the point you made about their backs to each other,
    and the "distance" between them.

    There is so much that can be said about this scene.
    Great photograph. Also cant get all my thoughts out right now ! :)

  12. Makhaya

    power. classic.

  13. Greer

    Brilliant. I haven't stopped thinking about this pic since the first time I saw it. My grandmother was a domestic worker, and I always wondered what her life was like, raising someone else's kids during the day -allll day!- (and in someone elses home) while her kids, (my father) were left at home. so yeah. brilliant, powerful, real, touching. I feel connected to that experience through this photograph. Sorry for babbling on but I feel very touched by this.

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