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THE BIG PICTURE






































































                                                                                       For many years, my wife Cheryl
                                                                                       and I travelled through the
                                                                                       platteland with my camera,
                                                                                       documenting the towns and
                                                                                       people we came across. Every
                                                                                       so often, we would stumble
                                                                                       upon a scene that was simply
                                                                                       other-worldly, like this one in
                                                                                       the Eastern Cape. We sat for an
                                                                                       hour watching these three men
                                                                                       plowing the field, cracking the
 EASTERN CAPE, 2014                                                                    whip, whistling and shouting.
                                                                                       It was a mesmerising sight,
                                                                                       and it felt as if we had stepped
                                                                                       back in time. These men were
                                                                                       using traditional methods of
 PHOTOGRAPHY BY IVAN MULLER                                                            subsistence farming, and their
 www.ivanmullerphotography.com                                                         hard work was evident in the
                                                                                       rows of freshly turned earth.


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