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Japanese tattoo artist, Tokumitsu Uchida proudly displaying tattoo markings made by his father, Goro Uchida, Japan, 1955

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Portland, OR 2019.

Nikon 35ti | Kodak Gold 200

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Igor Skaletsky.

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Life in Violet, Tizta Berhanu, 2018

Oil on canvas 140 x 140 cm (55.12 x 55.12 in.)

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Very Rare

Biggie & Kurt Cobain

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Swiss morning | juusohd

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Laguna Beach, California | stanmoniz

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Calvin K SS14 backstage

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King Alphonso, 1983, Jean-Michel Basquiat

Medium: acrylic,charcoal,crayon,pastel,pencil

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Whole Lotta Red

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Johannesburg, South Africa.

The start of my African journey started in the capital. The city has the most contrast of anywhere I went in Africa and it certainly felt the most alive, the youth are driving change.

Photos by me.

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Township Funk

Township Funk is an ongoing curated fashion editorial series exploring youth street culture in South Africa’s underdeveloped racially segregated urban areas.

A post-apartheid documentation of a newly found urge for expression. Contrasting the traumatic history of the location is a newly found enthusiasm to strive for more. 

Inspired by DJ Mujava’s 2008 hit single “Township Funk” these images seek to embrace the influx of information via social media and the internet at large, which has meant that young people now have a wide variety of aesthetics to choose from while avoidingstereotypes. 

Photography & Creative Directions: @bambathajones

Styling: Sindi Mlangeni

Model: Ntate Phakela

Location: Bara Taxi Rank, Soweto

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Samthing Soweto - “Akulaleki” ft. Sha Sha, DJ Maphorisa & Kabza De Small…

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Shot by @holdenmedia

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If ya momma don’t like I’ll fight the bitch Shit, if you don’t like her I’ll SNIPE the bitch

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