I was lucky enough to visit the Northern Cape last week, and lucky enough to have met Oupa on my way. He's 75, a small scale mine worker who after years of working for a conglomerate like De Beers finally owns his own 1.5 hectare erf called Graciesputs. The landscape can be unforgiving in Namaqualand, but the people and place are pervaded by a certain peace that's difficult to describe and even more difficult to hold on to when you're back to the city. All I have is an old Minolta (that I'm still trying to figure out how to work) so it's film and hasn't been treated. And all I want is to take pictures, so the struggle continues.
This was taken at Kleinzee which is next to the coast.
