Michael Stevenson

Frik Loubser, farmer, shopkeeper and postmaster in the Marico Bushveld, sitting before the bakoond in which his wife baked bread. He spoke of Harold Wilson and Britains's finances; of his son, the fastest runner at Nietverdiend school; of the effect on his shop of the removal of the African families from that area under the government's racial laws; of the regrettable tendency to serve instant coffee on Marico stoeps; and of the bushveld which he loved. Although the area was densely covered by thorn trees, he nurtured a swarthaak in his backyard through a seven-year drought.

printed 2006
silver gelatin print on fibre paper
27.5 x 27cm