Russel Thokozani Kana: A Holy Photography
by: Jessica Manim
The work of Russel Thokozani Kana is quietly meditative, deeply spiritual and achingly intimate. From discarded bricks swimming beneath murky rivers and fractured tv sets left on barren land to intimate portraits of children and men, his images speak where word would fail. Russel describes his main photography essay at present as being a memoir, a project which he says was born long before he was given the vision to see it. This vision came to him when he first arrived in Port Elizabeth on South Africa’s east...more
