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Oppikoppi Portraits
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Located just outside the dry northern South African town of Northam, a farm called Oppikoppi wakes up annually to make sure that 18 000 music fans destroy themselves properly. Situated in what could possibly be the worst location imaginable to throw a festival (thorns, DUST, dry bush prone to fire and potholes the size of the road), it has become one of the only South African festivals to sell out. A brilliant collection of people breaking free from the ratrace for that one weekend a year when being an animal is OK, and destruction is encouraged. An outlet of such ferocity that people seem quite happy to return to their schedules, ties and day jobs.
This is a collection of portraits I shot using a (now in tatters) 60 by 60cm softbox off axis, carried by my assistant for the festival, Erin Wulfsohn. All shot within the space of one hour whilst the cursed dust ensured the most beautiful graduated sky.
More at http://www.behance.net/gallery/Oppikoppi-Portraits/3310164
Interesting set, the lighting is great (rip softbox you have served well) :)
The first pic is brilliant :lol:
Reminds me of this S.African rapper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4_pS46YRMIQadrianmatthews wrote:
…reminds me of some of larry burrows pics
Just checked out Larry Burows photos! Thanks Adam, will check out the photographer’s life out properly tomorrow.
Really love this set the lighting is very nice and the colours look very smooth or something.
Haha cheers everyone. I was intent on capturing the spirit of this beast of a festival. Not as much post/HDR as you might think. There is an incredible amount of dust in the sky and the African sun lights it up beautifully in this part of the country. If anyone wants, I’ll even post unprocessed copies.
The rest of the project can be found here: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Oppikoppi-Portraits/3310164″ onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
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