I’ve been getting a lot of people asking me how I started in photography. The 15 cent paperback autobiography reads something like this. I, much like everyone else, got interested in photography from a young age and had the obligatory out-of-date East European camera handed down from my father.
In the early nineties I studied photojournalism at Rhodes University, graduating in 1995, and taking up a career as an arts and culture photojournalist with SL Magazine, GTFO, Mail & Guardian, Epic Magazine and others. I ended up working with most of the style and culture magazines of the Nineties, covering fashion, celebrities, music and winning several photographic awards.
Having founded a photojournalism studio based on the capacity of images to communicate and narrate a story without the use of a text. I am an active member of the Wedding Photojournalist Association – WPJA, and have worked for some of the best known celebrities and magazines around the world including covering U2 during their tour of South Africa, spending three weeks on tour with the Springbok Nude Girls, and shooting Marianne Fassler’s portrait.
When I shoot a wedding I bring all of this experience as a professional photojournalist to your event, as well as my years as a wedding photographer.

U2’s Bono live in Cape Town

Arno Carstens and Koos Kombuis at Oppikoppi.

This entry was posted Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005 at 10:17 am and is filed under Contains Images, Info, Photography.