{"id":131558,"date":"2019-02-14T10:46:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T08:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/047-100-lionel\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T10:46:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T08:46:04","slug":"047-100-lionel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/047-100-lionel\/","title":{"rendered":"047\/100 Lionel"},"content":{"rendered":"

047\/100 Lionel<\/strong>
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\nImage by Lino Steenkamp<\/a><\/i>
\nI took my sons to Ceres to go and do the longest zipline in Africa and while they were doing that I went out on the streets to find some strangers.<\/p>\n

As I were walking down the main street Lionel came around a corner and nearly bumped into me. The minute I saw the hat, I knew I wanted him for the project.<\/p>\n

I approached him and asked for his portrait to which he immediately agreed. <\/p>\n

My first 46 strangers were an absolute pleasure and I loved every moment of it, I also had only two rejections in the whole period. This walk in Ceres were the absolute opposite to my previous experiences and I’m battling to understand why. <\/p>\n

Only tree things changed for this walk:<\/p>\n

1. The town: Could that make such a big difference, would a whole town be more suspicious than the previous 10 or more locations I visited.<\/p>\n

2. Time of walk: I normally do my walks first thing in the morning where this were a mid day walk. Could that make a difference?<\/p>\n

3. My approach: I normally don’t lead with the question if I could take someones portrait, I first engage the stranger in normal conversation and then ask for the portrait, where on this outing I approached all my subjects directly. I think this would have made the biggest difference, I’m however not sure that it would have this big an influence with about 75% of the people I asked refusing me today.<\/p>\n

Also interesting to note the emotional effect today had on me. When I came home I told my wife like I felt I did not want to publish any of the strangers I got as I did not establish a proper rapport with any of them. So in short I felt the whole day were a failure. In the end I however decided to post Lionel’s picture because it were the most interesting of the day and it also gave me te opportunity to share my experience with you.<\/p>\n

My 100 strangers blog Mafube’s 100 Strangers<\/a><\/p>\n

my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page<\/a><\/p>\n

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