HOMETOWN

Hometown is an ongoing series of works by South African photographer Alastair Whitton that explores notions of belonging and displacement within the shifting socio-political context of Cape Town where he lives. These images capture the fleeting and oftentimes fragile moments of everyday life in the local urban landscape.

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A FOREIGN LAND

A Foreign Land is a photo narrative series by Alastair Whitton that considers the mechanisms of memory and the mapping of geographies in a Post-Apartheid democratic South Africa; through the lens, Whitton explores what he refers to as ‘the architecture of time and the poetics and politics of place’.

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METROPOLIS

South African photographer Alastair Whitton has made several trips to London, New York and Paris. These world capitals have been documented by celebrated photographers extensively over many decades. Metropolis represents Whitton’s homage to these iconic cities and offers the viewer distinct, and at times unexpected, views of the architecture, interiors and streets of these celebrated metropoles.

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GLIMPSE

Glimpse is primarily a series a photographic ‘portraits’ of objects and landscapes from a personal collection gathered and carried over an extended period. These images function as commemorative markers and explore the notion of the photograph as memorial. The evidence of a life; this collection of photographs chronicles aspects of love and loss, memory and geography and is essentially a meditation on transience and the passage of time.

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