The rather staid, censored version goes something like this..

I’m a self-taught photographer, working out of my home town, Cape Town, South Africa. EDIT: I recently moved to St Helena Bay, a fishing town up the west coast, and loving it.

Over the past 40 years, I have photographed in just six countries, and I have not been included in publications like National Geographic, Time, New York Times and Newsweek. Nor have I held solo exhibitions in New York, London and Paris, or anywhere, for that matter, and my work is not showcased in private and institutional collections around the world.

My only formal training was with the NY Institute of Photography, doing their correspondence course while living in London, way back in pre-internet 1980. I’d post my photos to New York, and wait for my next assignment and results by return post. I do, however, attend many lectures by amazing photographers at Uni of Youtube.. ;)

And then the business of life intruded..

A turning point occurred when someone wanted to buy some of my photos at the beginning of the Covid chaos, in 2020. The fact that these photos were taken with my cellphone was a deal breaker, the resolution being too low for enlarging. That prompted me to buy a camera-camera, a Black Friday special deal on an entry-level Canon 2000D, which I still use, although it’s nearing the end of its shutter count life span.

My photos and images are really random as you can see; I’m not committed to any particular genre. They are really just the way I inherently see the world, not just in terms of little compositions and vignettes, but also of colour, too. ( Bear in mind I’m radically colour-blind, and the butt of jokes with my friends!) But, like my music, I enjoy, or at least appreciate, most all of them. A great image is a great image, and music to my eyes.

Influences from my youth might be my piles of Nat Geo and surfing mags, artist family and friends, and great abstract, cubist and impressionist art gracing the walls of my childhood home.

All I can say is I haven’t had so much fun in many years, reconnecting with my suppressed creative self.

If you’ve read this far, thank you for sticking around!

Best to you,

Perry

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My anthem since about the age of 21…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v13Ei1B9rpA&list=RDv13Ei1B9rpA&start_radio=1