Peter Metelerkamp
Documentary Photographer
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| A shop window in Grahamstown captures the layering of Eurocentric tastes with local conditions. The settler experience was always, and remains, one of narrative layering. The very language used to describe the most ordinary events is freighted with anachronistic associations, and aesthetic conventions are uneasily adapted to material experience. | ||
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