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Peter Metelerkamp

Documentary Photographer

Settler Country

Fort Beaufort Museum
Memorabilia in small country museums recall more confident times for settler culture. These Victorian dresses are preserved in the little museum in Fort Beaufort, along with other signifiers of a time when the town was the centre of a prosperous and confident settler community, centred on citrus orchards planted in the levees of the Kat River. Increasingly what once must have felt permanent, takes on the character of a brief interlude between the town's beginnings as a frontier garrison, and its current state of populous indigence.

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