ABOUT ME

When I was a little boy I was called "umfanyana" in the iSizulu language, in Kwa-Zulu Natal. My nickname, which stuck, was born from that iSizulu word: Fanjan. You pronounce it like onion with an F.
Ex Industrial Engineer, made a career change at 30, learned that media production is my jam. It reminded me that when I was about 10 years old, watching the movie Cocoon, I thought to also do that - whatever "that" meant making a movie. 
 

Over the past 10 plus years I have learned from many great movie film lighting technicians, cinematographers, Directors, and photographers - many of them now friends.

My photographic style is influenced by magazines I saw in my teens, the way many young middle class South African kids in small towns discovered the world whilst being still rather isolated.

I enjoy bold simple stark colours with compositions that lean towards the abstract. For black & white I do prefer the old past masters with classic tones and contrast and strong compositions.

For my cinematography I found I lean either to the natural or to the surreal, with the focus of the cinematography becoming invisible to the audience, serving the story which may or may not mean, a beautiful image.