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A selection of my work will be shown at the “Twenty Ten on the road” exhibition, which presents a selection of work created by the Twenty Ten journalists prior to and during the World Cup.
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The exhibition is open to the public from 19 November – 28 November 2010.
Venue: Paulaner Brauhaus
Clocktower Square
V&A Waterfront
Cape Town
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I will be in Johannesburg for the month of June, where I will be photographing the 2010 World Cup and events surrounding it for World Press Photos & Africa Media Online.
I have also started my Tin Can Town project. Natasha was forcibly moved to Blikkiesdorp (translated as “Tin Can Town” from the Afrikaans, and popularly known as the “dumping ground” of the Cape) after living in and around Seapoint for 15 years:
“I’m glad to have a home but we are so far away from everything. We used to find our food in the rubbish bins of the residents in the area and got money from begging now there’s nothing around, we go 3 or 4 days without food. I know they are trying to tidy away Cape Town’s poor and homeless before the World Cup. We’ve been threatened if we are found back on the streets we will be locked up.”