Spoor
Roger Palmer
A ‘spoor’ is the track or scent of an animal or person. In Afrikaans it also refers to rail tracks (South Africa’s rail network, used to be called Spoornet). The title of the book suggests acts of following and shadowing determined by these mostly defunct rail routes, many of which are now used as footpaths between township and town.
Over the course of the project Roger Palmer stopped at around 550 places to make pictures. From these 83 images are presented in ten series. The photographs were accumulated between 2014 and 2018 as Palmer drove along mostly minor roads through the country’s nine provinces.
GOST
2019
Hardcover
19.5 x 20.5 cm
208 pages
£35
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Roger Palmer
A ‘spoor’ is the track or scent of an animal or person. In Afrikaans it also refers to rail tracks (South Africa’s rail network, used to be called Spoornet). The title of the book suggests acts of following and shadowing determined by these mostly defunct rail routes, many of which are now used as footpaths between township and town.
Over the course of the project Roger Palmer stopped at around 550 places to make pictures. From these 83 images are presented in ten series. The photographs were accumulated between 2014 and 2018 as Palmer drove along mostly minor roads through the country’s nine provinces.
GOST
2019
Hardcover
19.5 x 20.5 cm
208 pages
£35
Enquire