CORNEL VAN HEERDEN | PHOTOGRAPHER | VIDEOGRAPHER | MULTIMEDIA | CONTENT CREATOR | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
Went to Rustenburg, South Africa to shoot Frik du Preez, Springbok and Rugby legend, for Beeld.
Story by Anim van Wyk:
http://www.beeld.com/In-Diepte/Nuus/Jy-moet-lewe-laat-lewe-20130215
*afrikaans
Yesterday I had the privilege of meeting and photographing Rory Byrne at Ferrari Viglietti in Bryanston, South Africa.
Rory Byrne is most famous for being the chief designer at the Benetton and Scuderia Ferrari Formula One teams.
Amazingly, 99 of his cars have won Grand Prix.
Story by Pauli van Wyk in Beeld: http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Sy-renmotors-wen-99-Grand-Prix-wedrenne-20121219
Fanie de Villiers, writing as Kleinboer, has written a new Afrikaans book, Werfsonde. I was commissioned to take a portrait of him and decided on these pictures.
He stays in Yeoville, that’s why we were in the streets of Yeoville. Yeoville is a predominantly black area and he is of the few white people who still live there.
The images are dark and surreal because he writes about brothels and having sex with black prostitutes.
I used of camera flash with a softbox attached, to the left.
Dragged my shutter to create the blurring of street and car lights.
Used second curtain flash to freeze my subject when and where I wanted to.
Original story by Pauli van Wyk: (Afrikaans)
http://www.beeld.com/In-Diepte/Nuus/Onder-vier-oe-Gewoontes-en-begeertes-20121116
Riaan Cruywagen will no longer be reading the Afrikaans news on our tv’s.
After being in the houses of many people for 37 years and more that 7000 news bulletins, Riaan, aged 67, will finally be doing his last news bulletin tonight on SABC2.
A gentle soul and giant in SA’s television news history.
*Couple of images I shot in his living room
While on another story I shot this picture of a man looking at the Portrait of Jesus Christ.
We were inside The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Went to Goldfields mine close to Carletonville yesterday. Miners were striking for a better wage.
She is smiling!
Every time I visit Pippie Kruger I can see an improvement – this time it was her smile and her eyes.
She smiles at me, playfully sticks out her tongue and even ‘kicks’ my butt.
Anice is so friendly always and jokes while she takes out special flavored milk from the refrigerator for our coffee.
Yesterday the Constitutional Court ruled that Menzi Simelane’s appointment as national director of public prosecutions was invalid.
Menzi wasn’t even there for the ruling, but Helen Zille of the Democratic Alliance was.
Luckily she was there, otherwise I would not have had any pictures for the paper.
Here is the story: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Simelane-appointment-invalid-ConCourt-20121005
CORNEL VAN HEERDEN 