On Friday afternoon I got a call from Jethro, an art director for a marketing company in Joburg. The brief was simple: photograph the dolosse in Richards Bay, and we need the images on Monday morning 8am for our advertising campaign. A flood of memories rushed through my mind at that exact moment. I know exactly how it is, having worked in advertising for many years. Everything is now now now and there’s no time to breathe. It’s one of the reasons I waved goodbye to it.
I had a wedding on Saturday, which left me only Sunday to do it. I wondered if there wasn’t a row of dolosse in Durban I could shoot instead, so I got in contact with a chap from Island View Storage who assured me there’s a row of them at the end of South Beach near the sailing club. So after clearing it with the client, I headed off at 6.30 Sunday morning to find and shoot the dolosse. It’s actually the first shoot I’ve done in ages that hasn’t involved people.
