
Rich Mnisi: Escaping Reality
Rich Mnisi is a third-year fashion design student at LISOF – one of South Africa’s leading Fashion Design Schools with locations in Johannesburg and Hatfield, Pretoria. Mnisi recently started studying photography after a year of taking images without any academic experience. He tells us that ‘[his] photography is quite the yin-yang with hints of darkness...

IMAGES OF THE WEEK: March
At the end of each week, we add four more images from onesmallseed.net to the relevant month’s gallery collection on onesmallseed.com. All images are the featured works of members of one small seed network, our creative online community. To have your work featured here, simply sign up as a member and start uploading! Enjoy our March selection! Week 04...

Picturing A Brave Old World: Sebastião Salgado’s “Genesis”
The modern world is a rush of industry, traffic, and whirring machinery. In 1932 Aldous Huxley predicted a ‘a brave new world’, but Sebastião Salgado has documented the striking existence of indigenous populations that have escaped the industrial buzz. Genesis is a collection of photographs that capture wildlife, nature and people in pockets of the...

Album of the Week: February, Week 04
This week’s Album of the Week is entitled Hair Tug Wars and is by onesmallseed.net member Kass DEA. Its simple concept — two pretty girls’ attempts to free themselves from their ‘hair cuffs’ in the sun — is just right to keep this summer alive. Join onesmallseed.net today and have your own work featured.

IMAGES OF THE WEEK: February
Images of the Week features four astounding visual delights every week from one small seed network. At the end of each week, we add four more images from onesmallseed.net to the relevant month’s gallery collection on onesmallseed.com. All images are the featured works of members of one small seed network, our creative online community. To have...

ART ANESTHETIC: ANDRE S CLEMENTS SHARES HIS UNDERSTANDING
André S Clements’ work can be described as a realist adaptation and exploration of human aesthetics through technology, which renders him a fine artist as well as craftsman. Known for his recursive medium of layered photographs, he recently launched his first solo exhibition ‘Æsthesia’ at The Res Gallery. The sophisticated debut – most notably including...

Passionate Art: interview with Anwar Davids
Artist Anwar Davids is on a mission: to help free minds and allow humanity to think for themselves. With talent as diverse as his personal and professional background and a fierce passion for expression, Davids is achieving his goal with participation in live art, exhibits and featured art for Supremebeing™ clothing. Growing up on the...

The Early Years of the Red Hot Chili Peppers | Rare Photographs
Fitting to current band members Anthony Kiedis (vocals), Michael ‘Flea’ Balzary (Bass), Chad Smith (drums) and Josh Klinghoffer (guitar) of the Red Hot Chili Peppers performing in Cape Town in a couple of hours, photographer Jean-Marc Lederman gave us some rare shots of the band’s youthful early members. Excited as hell, we indulged in memory...

Through rose glasses: Paris caught in coloured past
The city of love has been frozen in time. Seen only before in black and white and imagination, these photos taken by accomplished brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière show a Paris of the past. By using Autochrome Lumière technology, people, places, streets, architecture and fanfare from early 20th century life are illuminated.

Filled with space: floating cloud gallery
For a moment in time, Amsterdam-based artist Berndnaut Smilde plays god and creates a perfect cloud — just long enough to be photographed and captured forever. The idea is to fill an ominous empty gallery with an element that is intriguing and fleeting.

Nature earns her stripes
Icebergs can prove the latest gift from nature to arouse artistic passions. These titanic sinking formations can now earn their stripes in this imaginative world – literally. First captured by Norwegian sailor Oyvind Tangen miles north of the Antarctic, striped icebergs are as abstract as a child’s painting, precise as Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, as...

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: JANUARY, WEEK 03
This week’s Album of the Week is entitled Dreams and Nightmares by Janine Kuschke. It’s a generous compilation of haz-ey black and white as well as colour shots that safely lead you through the highs and lows of the unpredictable land of dreams. Prepare to be moonstruck!