Week 04

‘Lauren’ by Siyabonga Mkhasibe

‘REQUIEM FOR THE OUTSIDER’ by Jasper Bailey

‘360º \\ DISCLOSURE – 17º’ by Cathrin Schulz

‘TheStatement’ by Brendan Jack

Week 03

‘Viollet Valley’ by Charles Harry Mackenzie

‘Too Far Away’ by Cathrin Schulz

‘Kick in Thanks’ by Barend J Stander

‘Melissa’ by Jes Hunter

Week 02

Saturday, Feel Like by Sarah Mahini

Tribe Series One by Hopscotch Poppy

Cape Town Station by Jasper Bailey

Poolside 18 by Cathrin Schulz

Strange Factory Light by Hendri Viljoen

Week 01

African Elephant by Conrad F de Jong

Isaac Klawansky by Shalom Nkululeko Mushwana

Mzamero by Sandile Kunene

Still Afloat by Small Adventures

Swept by YasMoosa

Light Chaser by YasMoosa

As a South African who is now based in Brisbane and currently studying architecture, the lovely Yaseera Moosa explains that she shoots on her Nikon D600 (and occasionally her iPhone), and that her technical process is spontaneous and experimental. She tells us, ‘I try not to overthink what my ‘style’ is because it’s pretty irrelevant to me. As a natural light photographer, my conditions are dictated by my environment, and as an impulsive person, my processing is dictated by how I feel. I struggle to describe my work in terms of its aesthetic character because I don’t really know what it is. I’m by no means a master of my craft and I have light years of learning ahead of me (which excites me to no end).’

Yaseera divulges that she doesn’t photograph to make a statement, but rather to feed her sentimentalism, ‘The fleeting nature of time and my constant fear of its insufficiency has left me with a desperate need to preserve it, so I do. I try to preserve the bane, the banal and the beautiful, so that I have something tangible (albeit occasionally abstract) to account for what I encounter.’

Her shoots, especially her portraiture shoots such as the ones featured below, are conceptualized by the people she shoots. Yaseera tells us that expression and disposition is usually a huge contributing factor to how she photographs her subjects, and that the same goes for place. ‘Rooms and fields have a lot of personality. So I always try to seek inspiration directly from my subjects. This always helps me when I’m trying to focus on doing something new, rather than latching onto an old technique or another photographer’s inspiration.’

If you like Yaseera’s work, keep an eye out for her regular work on her Facebook page and check out the gallery below for more of her images.

Sunkissed by YasMoosa

Suv by YasMoosa

Untitled by YasMoosa

Stephanie by YasMoosa

What Defines Art by YasMoosa

Autumn Air by YasMoosa

At the end of each week, we add two more images to that month’s gallery collection and feature the images in our weekly newsletter, sent straight to your inbox (which you can sign up to on our home page). All images are the featured works of members of one small seed network, our creative online community. To have your work featured in this series, simply sign up as a member and start uploading now!

We hope you enjoy our first collection for the month of April 2011.

Week 04

5905 by Ashleigh Tasker

Emma by Jane Patterson

Week 03

Grimis by Conrad F de Jong

BEAUTIFUL BOUFFON2 by Janine van der Tuin

Week 02

The Bone Collectors by Elsa Bleda

This Institution by Kian Vegas

Week 01

It's Rainy Out by Ilse Moore

Lest We Forget by Neil Acid