The immediacy of photography
The first in a series of interviews by Roxsanne Dyssell, a South African writer based in New York City. First: Photographer and photoblogger, Karabo Maine.
Welcome to the inaugural post of our new weekly feature profiling the people behind blogs and/or tumblrs curated by Africans, on the continent as well as in the diaspora. The posts will highlight influences, genres, and point to the kinds of work being produced by young African photographers/curators. Most of those featured are at the start of their careers. We hope to introduce you to artists you either have not heard about or whose work does not saturate the mainstream (yet). First up is Karabo Maine (that’s him in the pic just below), a photographer based in the Botswana capital, Gaborone. Maine works for a newspaper there, the Botswana Gazette. A recent Fine Art Photography graduate from the University of Cape Town, Karabo has worked in various other mediums such as sculpture, painting and drawing, in both Swaziland and South Africa. He maintains a Tumblr page – BRKFST where he shares his recent photography and illustration work. The images here are all his own. The first question he answered is: What made you decide to set up a Tumblr page?