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Images of a nation under threat

Posted by Hilton Hamann on Saturday, December 24, 2011,


 December 16 is considered, by many Afrikaners, their most holy day.
 It commemorates the December 16, Battle of Blood River in 1838 when they believe God gave them an unlikely victory against thousands of Zulu warriors.
 Each year, thousands of Afrikaners gather at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria to celebrate and remember that day and reaffirm their culture values and beliefs.

New Blood River

  In many ways they are once again engaged in a 'new battle of Blood River' as whites - and...

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Minolta Autocord

Posted by Hilton Hamann on Tuesday, November 9, 2010,


 It's amazing how many blog posts, all over the internet, start with the phrase: "...it's been a long time since I've posted on my blog."
 In keeping with that fine tradition, it has been a long time since I have posted on my blog. Life always seems to get in the way and I have had my head firmly down making cyanotypes and prints for a solo exhibition that will take place next week. I have also had a number of commissions that needed to be completed.
 But along the way I purchased a 1950s Minol...

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Tough to photograph

Posted by Hilton Hamann on Monday, January 18, 2010,
Recently my Dad turned 84 and over the past few years it's become something a tradition for me to photograph him on his birthday.
 I shot these pics on Ilford's superb XP2 Super film with a little Ricoh rangefinder camera that sold for very little back in the 70s but which never ceases to amaze me with the quality of the images it delivers.
 These are not "pretty" pictures of my Dad. In fact, in some ways they're quite sad as they show how he has deteriorated physically over the past few years ...
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