MOUNT NELSON

ISBN-13: 9782492175459 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 112 str.

Rosie Marks

Opis

Rosie Marks photographed Mount Nelson in Cape Town, in spring 2023 and winter 2024. Rosie Marks remembers seeing the trademark-pink walls of the Mount Nelson Hotel when she was a kid on a family holiday in South Africa. Years later, in this book she captures the rooms and grounds and their inhabitants with a sense of nostalgia, personal connection and her characteristic earthy humour. She was particularly drawn to Mount Nelsonâs employees.â¨Her portraits of the staff, some of whom have worked in the hotel for decades, gazing out at us proudly from windows and offices, offer a glimpse into their daily lives. She explains that she was fascinated by the rhythms of administrative work overlapping with ritual and community â the morning briefings often culminateâ¨in group prayer and singing, an important marker of the dayâs beginning. Above all, her photographs are as much about herself as they are about the people she is photographing: her images reveal what is funny and extraordinary and unique to her, picturing those quirks of human existence that we too often overlook.