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Thanks to everyone that joined us on Saturday for the launch of .bernstein debut photo book - MAPALAKATA published by

MAPALAKATA engages with landscape via a visual reassessment of a key historical, geological and geographical region in Southern Africa. The title, meaning ‘visitors’, is drawn from oral histories and was used to describe traders from the East who moved through Southern Africa before European colonisation.

The work is situated in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, on the escarpment bordering Mozambique and Eswatini. A place where lush cliffs abruptly pierce the hot, red earth of the lowlands. It serves as a geo-physical symbol for the edge of the South African frontier. A collision point that has inspired countless folk tales and the beginnings of the modern-day story of gold in South Africa.

Today, plantations of foreign trees blanket the landscape while mills churn steam as they pulp pine into paper. In the valleys below, gold mines that have been chiming steel against rock for the past one hundred years ring their ceaseless chorus. The surrounding terrain is littered with relics of another time — the remnants of a forgotten pre-colonial society and wild descendants of horses abandoned during wars and a failed gold rush.

We still have a few signed copies available in-store and online now ✨

Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art

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In-store and online

Six years in the making. 100 extra unordinary portraits. It doesn’t look like a first book. It looks like a major work by a major artist. Which is because... it is. Nadia’s work is big on ambition. It is hyper-surrealist pop iconography, deeply moving, naked in its honesty, and heartbreaking.

Sold out everywhere, but we have a few copies in-store and online now ❤️

Semi-detached by David Malan is the second publication by our friends .coolbooks

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Available in-store and online now

THE NIGHT IS YOUNG

This is a book of South African Matric Balls. Photographed between 2018 and 2023, and at thirteen different high schools, the book presents a comprehensive study of South African youth at a momentous point in their lives.

The book is published by IDEA Books, designed by Stuart Smith and clothbound in a vibrant blue with a gilded title, fittingly regal for the nights within. Each of these events have been long prepared for, long-longed for — an ultimate crescendo of the creation of self. This is a prepared portrait of who they are. The school corridors are their Met Steps, the dining hall their Oscars stage: it is their big day, and they go big...

Available in-store and online now

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Our first shipment of stock from IDEA Books lands tomorrow 🟢⚫️⚪️🔵 Available in-store and online from Saturday!

100% organic cotton IDEA hat. I DON’T WORK HERE on the front. SORRY on the back. All organic cotton classic unstructured six panel hat. Eco conscious :)
One size fits most.