Corné
Interview: Matthew Freemantle
Drawing: Jonathan Freemantle
Corné walked past me on Kloof Street in Cape Town and asked for money. I said no, but changed my mind, caught up with him and offered to buy him lunch. He said: “Today’s not good.” We met the following day. He said he had smoked a bulb of tik five minutes before we sat down. He is an aspiring writer, among other things. He asked that his photo was not taken.
Line Drawings
Drawings: Jess Jorgensen
The word ‘interview’ derives from the French ‘entrevue’, a simplification of ‘s’entrevoir’, meaning to ‘see each other’. It follows that an interview can as much be an exhaustive conversation between two people as a covert sketch from stolen glances of passengers on the train.
Jess Jorgensen’s series of portraits were all drawn from life on various journeys on the tube in London.
Fanie
Interview: Matthew Freemantle
Drawing: Jonathan Freemantle
Fanie is 50. He lives in Hillbrow, Johannesburg with his wife and daughter. He makes and sells dog, cat and horse tags on the pavement beside the Jan Smuts freeway. He preferred that his surname was not mentioned.
“OK, there is some days, you know, you don’t get sales maybe for a day, two days, sometimes three days. But then all of a sudden, BAM! Then the sales come.”
