The photo documentary and the coffee table book project " THE MDANTSANE WAY " has come to an end. The book will be available from next week onwards on Amazon.com. You have the option between an e-book version and a hardcover version. You can also order it directly from me.
It was not easy to make the selection of images to be included in the book. In fact this was our biggest problem, to choose between more than 10.000 images that we have shot during the last five years.Reluctantly we had to limit the scope of " THE MDANTSANE WAY " although we would have loved to create a 1000 or more pages edition - which would have been easily possible.
The hardcover version measuring 30 x 25 cm, with over 200 pages, hundreds of color images and some amazing stories of amazing people, this book is a portrait of Mdantsane that we are proud of. It includes a number of images and articles that we like and that we have partly shown on our blog but it also contains a lot of new material. It is a personal, very human account of what we have seen and encountered during our countless visits.
We thank Onehitale Akhimien Ugue for an amazing job he has done on the layout and the graphic design of The Mdantsane Way. If you love color, you will love browsing through this book !
We called Mdantsane in the beginning " the mysterious one". There was this big township right in front of our door and nobody had talked about it or devoted a photographic project or film project to it. Many said, it's not interesting. Township reportage is boring now !
Nobody could even explain to us what the name Mdantsane means. Our book starts with a short description of our search for the origin of the name.
Every African name has a meaning. So, I said to myself, the meaning and the origin of the name has to be found. But each and every person I asked said to me: Nope, it doesn't mean a thing !
" The Mysterious One" has been turned into a to us much known and beloved one. When we started the process, we saw there are so many amazing things to discover. It's not boring at all. It is exciting ! We are able to share at least some of the excitement with you now.
And there is more to come in the future !
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