No one thing ever merges gradually into anything else; the steps are discontinuous, but often so very minute as to seem truly continuous. If the investigation is carried deep enough, the factor in question, instead of being graphable as a continuous process, will be seen to function by discrete quanta with gaps or synapses between, as do quanta of energy, undulations of light.

Alluvium

Documenting people from historically disadvantaged communities in rural South Africa. A long-term project. Proceeds from the sale of these photographs are donated towards organisations that aid in the advancement of rural and vulnerable communities affected by poverty, alcoholism and violence.

The Invisibles

A journey inward, a reflection on the times.
With living trees set in a dreamy environment as the subject matter, this collection ponders mental health and the isolation and rumination brought on by a pandemic, a world brought to standstill. These living organisms are frozen, forever, and yet alive and thriving outside of our gaze. A comment on our ability to overweight the observation of the state of being, that which is ever evolving, ever changing, and can never be fully isolated to be inspected.

Gita Claassen