DISPOSABLES

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A PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERIMENT BY BRETT MORRIS

I see many of this books contributors every day. You might see some of them too, if not the very same people, then others like them. They live on the fringe of privileged society. Filling its nameless and faceless peripheral roles. They beg its small change, sweep its floors, cook its food, mind its cars or do what ever they need to to survive on the outskirts of its exclusive world. They are to coin a politically incorrect term, society’s disposables. The idea for this book came from the idealistic notion that I might be able to help them earn some money the same way I do, by expressing myself creatively. And at the same time offer society a look at the lives they lead beyond its manicured borders. And so the idea for a book (and a gratuitous plan) was born. I bought fifteen disposable cameras and set about recruiting the participants. I attached a small piece of paper to each camera that also had my name and phone number on it. My offer to them was this, I would give them ten rand at the outset to go off and take photographs. When they were finished they would phone me and I would collect the camera and give them another forty rand. So they would receive fifty rand to become a photographer for a day (or two or three or however long it took). Then if and when I managed to procure funds to publish a book they would receive a bonus and all of the remaining profits would be donated to charity. And this is what happened.

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Authored by Brett Morris and published Privately in Johannesburg in 2005. Hard cover bound this First Edition is in Fine condition with an illustrated cover. The size of the book is 247x344x15mm, with 115 pages. The first 3 sheets are creased across the lower corner. A rather unsettling portrait of Johannesburg’s struggling population. Photographs in colour with captions. Please expect extra overseas postage.