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MOUNT NELSON
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- Book Synopsis
- Rosie Marks photographed Mount Nelson in Cape Town, in spring 2023 and winter 2024. Rosie Marks remembers seeing the trademark-pink walls of the Mount Nelson Hotel when she was a kid on a family holiday in South Africa. Years later, in this book she captures the rooms and grounds and their inhabitants with a sense of nostalgia, personal connection and her characteristic earthy humour. She was particularly drawn to Mount Nelsonâ s employees.â ·Her portraits of the staff, some of whom have worked in the hotel for decades, gazing out at us proudly from windows and offices, offer a glimpse into their daily lives. She explains that she was fascinated by the rhythms of administrative work overlapping with ritual and community â the morning briefings often culminateâ ·in group prayer and singing, an important marker of the dayâ s beginning. Above all, her photographs are as much about herself as they are about the people she is photographing: her images reveal what is funny and extraordinary and unique to her, picturing those quirks of human existence that we too often overlook.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9782492175459
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- RVB Books, (03 November 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 112
- Weight
- 800 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 175 x 248 x 16 mm
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