Pure Peru

SOUTH AFRICA | Friday, 5 July 2013 | Views [497] | View Smaller Image

Carlos is a documentary filmmaker and surfer. The ocean seems to play a role in everyone's consciousness in Cape Town - the nature of water imbues this city with an odd ebb and flow. The nature of water is in many ways a contradiction - calm or violent, sweet or salty, fresh or freezing - and yet such a thin line exists between these contradictions.

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This bespectacled man is a regular in Salt River, a semi-residential area of bad repute that borders the industrial hub of Cape Town. I met him outside Fargo's trading - an outlet store frequented by Cape Town's muslim community for their huge range of spices and exotic food items. The abortion poster on the pole behind him is not an unusual sight.

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A view of Sea Point peeks out from between the saddle of Lion's Head and Signal Hill, nestled between shore and mountain.

Table Mountain is a sacred place, mythically, to the nomadic hunter gatherers that lived in this region. Known as the

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