Photo Story: Airborne

By Sarah Rose de Villiers

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned to the sky, for there you have been and for there you will long to return.

– Leonardo Da Vinci

Top Five Photos at FotoFence

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By Ryal Newfeldt

FotoFence is the brainchild of Brent Meistre, a senior lecturer and photographer at Rhodes University. It is an initiative that aims to give young photographers in and around Grahamstown a platform to show off their skills, a panel of judges selected collections of photographs, each depicting a scene from the following four categories: City/ Landscapes, Afro- Futurists and Selfies, Life up- close, and Live Action City.

Secret stories: Grahamstown’s Graffiti

By Dave Mann

Graffiti culture carries various negative connotations and is often synonymous with ideas of gangsterism, drugs, and wasted youth. However, there is a side to graffiti that not many people know about: a beautiful side that ties together cityscapes and cultures, and uplifts communities. Click through these photos of hidden graffiti gems and get acquainted with the Grahamstown graffiti scene.

Photo Essay: Inside the RU Library

By Ian Currie

Rina Goosen, who runs Rhodes University’s Inter-Library Loans department, always has a shelf full of books that need repairing. Amongst her other duties, which include procuring texts for staff, postgraduates and honorary staff that the Rhodes Library does not house, she attempts to repair books that have been damaged. This keeps her busy during lunch and after hours, and she can repair as many as 7 books in an hour.

Photo Essay: RU Neko Anime Society Japanese Classes

By Wynona Latham

Most Sundays the Rhodes Neko Anime society holds beginner Japanese classes in Arts Minor.

The venerable sensei of these classes is Mikaela Kohlo, a Linguistics Masters student with a love of Japanese culture. “I’ve always been in love with languages and cultures different from the ones I grew up in,” she said. “I think my interest in Japanese culture and language started in high school, around grade 9/10, when I began to watch anime in original Japanese. I became interested in the language because it felt cool to repeat the words I heard.”