With summer approaching, I travelled up South Africa’s west coast to shoot the new work by the labels, Made In Africa and Idol Stitches. It was a day of blues and whites to match the perfect clouds and sky.

What can I say about La Muralla Roja ? Iconic. That’s it … it was a lifelong dream to go and see Ricardo Bofill’s masterpiece in Spain. I spent three days staying there, swimming in the glorious pool and taking photographs. Having just arrived from the medina of Tangier, that sense of unconcerned dislocation felt familiar to me. I was happy to wander up and down the stairs, turning a corner and finding myself in the blue area of the building or the deep red area, without ever trying too hard to orientate myself. I constantly found myself not quite where I was trying to get to, but it didn’t matter: within these walls the journey was definitely the destination.

 The building’s appearance changed throughout the day, the effect of the shifting light on the colours and shapes of the building: the reds getting darker, the pinks brighter, the blues turning grey in the sunlight. The blues would bleed into the sky and often, the most startling colour was that of the Mediterranean or the cloudless sky glimpsed through the tall cut-outs that led the eye to the outside world.

Peyton as the Denim Pirate, in a shoot inspired by my favourite fashion spreads in The Face magazine in the 80’s : the Buffalo look (but make it denim). And a bit of Dune inspiration thrown in, as the landscape and the heat of the day gave rise to comparisons. Oh yes, and the goggles.

Working with one of my favourite models on a tribute to Drum Magazine and inspired by the stories of Can Themba (described as “the supreme intellectual tsotsi of them all” by writer, lewis Nkosi. Sometimes the location gives rise to the idea, as it did in this case, when I came across this wonderful kitchen.

A shoot with one of my favourite models, Nkosi, taking advantage of matching blues.

Made in Africa is a menswear brand designed in Cape Town by a Ghanian designer. The brand's name is a call to young creatives to stay and create work on the African continent instead of heading to Europe.

Ababtu in Africa’s new cashmere blankets were the impetus for this shoot, nicknamed The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. It’s the voyage of the lonesome but stylish African cowboy.

My shoot for African Renaissance Designs was sub titled The Sci-Fi Boxer as we mixed the sporty designs with a futuristic location in a nod to two of my favourite films , Blade Runner and its sequel Blade Runner 2049.

A shoot for the Burundi based jewelry designer, Margaux Wong who creates what she called “luxury wearable art.”

Mens shirt brand, Yarnh, shot on location in an abandoned school outside Cape Town. Yarnh makes beautiful limited edition men’s shirts in Cape Town.

The work of designer Thandazani Nofingxana, from the Eastern Cape area of South Africa. I am drawn to Thandazani’s attention to detail and his eye for something that is just the right amount of unusual.

A holiday for me includes getting out on the street and photographing those whose style I find interesting and whose looks I might not find at home. These were taken in the city of Stone Town on the East African island of Zanzibar during Eid in 2023.

A personal project I did with one of my favourite models, Bandile, based on a portrait I encountered in the National Portrait Gallery in London of the architect Sir Christopher Wren, painted by Godfrey Kneller in 1711.

Le Sape are the Sapeurs of Brazzaville Congo : the dedicated dandies who in a bit of colonial role reversal, adopted the sartorial elegance of their European colonialists. Le Sape also have an ethos of good manners and serving as an inspiration to others. I photographed Gerald and Michael from Brazzaville in Cape Town.

The designs of fashion designer Katekani Moreku are inspired by his traditional SePulana roots and his upbringing in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

One I Am is the label of South African designer, Onesimo Bam. Fashion inspired by his homeland with a dose of Japanese influence. I shot his latest collection on a series of colourful fire escapes in Cape Town.

A look into boxing clubs for youth in Cape Town.

Roq Men Africa is the label of Siyavuya Roqoza, a designer from the Eastern Cape, South Africa , who references his isiXhosa upbringing in his designs.

I shot the designs of Basotho inspired Thabo Makhetha with the fashion of Klipa Denim.

Ordinary Shirts are the very opposite of their name : beautifully cut, wax print shirts designed by stylist Marike Mapham.

MaXhosa is the internationally celebrated label of Laduma Ngxokolo who uses traditional isiXhosa patterns in his knitwear.

Chulaap is the work of Chu Suwannapha, a one of a kind fashion mixture with international influences, but with ideas definitely rooted in his adopted home country of South Africa.

Unknown Union created these beautiful coats inspired by the Basotho blanket.

The debut collection of fashion label Ebuku Threads, who hand print their fabrics using traditional methods in Nigeria.