HOME IS WHERE THE HORSE IS
You are missing an eye. The left. Socket punctuated by flies. A lingering of violence. Your flanks a ripe fruit of ticks. Drunk. I will not interfere in your communion. Nor be your feeding hand. Remember. That night by the road. Beneath a canopy of burnt trees. Johnny K. You scaled the shallow bank of grass. Onto the cleft road. Vulnerable as a lip. I smelt of return. You of breaking surf.
Home Is Where The Horse Is traces the fragile coexistence between human and animal in the tidal wetlands of Rooisand, South Africa. The wild horses that inhabit this landscape, their origins uncertain, their survival improbable, move through the salt marshes with a quiet defiance.
You are missing an eye. The left. Socket punctuated by flies. A lingering of violence. Your flanks a ripe fruit of ticks. Drunk. I will not interfere in your communion. Nor be your feeding hand. Remember. That night by the road. Beneath a canopy of burnt trees. Johnny K. You scaled the shallow bank of grass. Onto the cleft road. Vulnerable as a lip. I smelt of return. You of breaking surf.
Home Is Where The Horse Is traces the fragile coexistence between human and animal in the tidal wetlands of Rooisand, South Africa. The wild horses that inhabit this landscape, their origins uncertain, their survival improbable, move through the salt marshes with a quiet defiance.
Through intimate observation and lyrical documentation, the series explores the tension between care and distance, presence and restraint, what it means to witness without possession. The horses become emblems of endurance and belonging, their bodies bearing the marks of time, weather, and human proximity.
Paired with a poem of the same title, Home Is Where The Horse Is becomes both elegy and reflection, an act of seeing that honours the wild without claiming it.
Shortlisted for the
Sony World Photography Awards ‘24
Featured by Daily Maverick + World Press Photo
Paired with a poem of the same title, Home Is Where The Horse Is becomes both elegy and reflection, an act of seeing that honours the wild without claiming it.
Shortlisted for the
Sony World Photography Awards ‘24
Featured by Daily Maverick + World Press Photo