May 3rd, 2011
Interview by Matthew Freemantle
Photography by Brendan Bannon
Daily Dispatches was conceived and carried out by photojournalist Brendan Bannon and journalist Mike Pflanz, who spent the month of April finding stories from all corners of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, with a view to painting a compelling, informative and surprising portrait of the city.
Each day, the images and reports were sent back to select US universities, which in turn printed and mounted them in a rolling exhibition.
Bannon says: “I look at people’s lives as being full of meaningful relationships, striving against the odds and achieving small victories.”
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by Matthew Freemantle
Photographic Illustration by Dylan Culhane
JRNL Editor Matthew Freemantle spent a week travelling south from Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania to Pemba in northern Mozambique. Coincidentally, his company was two Tanzanian boys jumping borders en route to Johannesburg, a city they dreamed of as a land of milk and honey. At the time, the xenophobic violence was at its height across South Africa.
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By Matthew Freemantle
Illustration by One Horse Town
There are about as many opinions about Arno Carstens as there are people who have heard his music. Some call him a cult hero, others think he’s a sell out. Many have ceased to care, others will never forget. I have spent the past three years gathering material for his authorised biography and I still don’t know where I stand. But let’s start from the beginning.
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