“ I first came to South Africa in 2002, assisting a Swedish fashion photographer. At that time I didn’t know much about the country. The first thing I saw from the taxi from the airport was the townships, endless landscapes of tin shacks where the majority of the people of Cape Town live. It was a grim picture in a country with harsh contrasts. I felt I needed to get inside, but I didn’t want to go on an organised township tour.
