the next british photographer great taliban. robin road is a south african artist based in berlin he uses many visual languages from painting to street art photography to film live improvised performances sculpture and art installations anything goes and his canvases range from bulls in the rough parts of his hometown johannesburg so walls in major museums around the world hippy by guest in just a minute 1st more about him and his art. robin road grew up in apartheid era south africa and made a name for himself with street art he moved to berlin 17 years ago and is now well established on the global contemporary art scene as an artist in south africa's young democracy road to press the country's new possibilities the hopes and the fears of the buildings in johannesburg where his canvases. even today he has

a difficult relationship with the white wounds of galleries and even his own studio fortunately the old road needs to make oh it's a great idea and something to draw with. just. was a superb. she is another road oh i took the sign to the same man didn't have. a bit of road road who joins me now in the studio welcome thank you so much as it said you are based here in berlin and you once said lynn gives me the breathing space what have internalised in south africa so just that mean it's still south africa is it your inspiration so that will always remain an inspiration for me it's my roots are in south africa but

i think that being in berlin allows me that space on the fiction to have that distance away from a very vibrant v.t. conflicted jogger fee set the country so i think the distance being in germany being in berlin the spatially i think is very helpful for my state of mind ok linspire you as well. as inspired me didi interesting ways it's been more. to be able to access these thought equal differences with its architecture with its european r.t.c. with its within modernity i think that being able to access that has been has been a video inspiration for me in my work i want to talk to you about bicycles because you feature them quite a bit different. and i know there's an interesting story concerning apartheid that sort of has to do with box of the story goes back many many years it goes back to the 2nd world war. and it's regarding this of african soldiers and

the forms of compensation in world war 2 soldiers who volunteered to fight for that had forces. were given different forms of compensation white soldiers were given land and soldiers of color black soldiers and guarded soldiers indian soldiers. were given bicycles. completely full so to me it's quite a yeah struction imagine i can imagine your performance is very. improvise ational. then you also work on walls and just how i feel is quite the opposite it's very rigid minted what you're doing that you have a whole crew who worked for years and. sort of disciplined rhythm you say you do this and you do that so why is that is is it the attraction of different disciplines or is there another reason why you operate these are these

a very important reason to exert in level of discipline and order in a society being they say on the street corner in the city that he's quite dangerous that has a lot of indians through it in a work on a wooden janice book in a in a very complex neighborhood that he saw thing with high levels of drug abuse highly . of unemployment. and in that circumstance you need to create a kind of group. understanding and that is through discipline and through responsibility i give every single individual in sponsibility to paint rain blue purple green and so forth and they do is to manage that all that ruler that pencil and the results of wonderful wonderful the kind. of the many

years of exercise and practice and i have of no mazing. complex complex group of young people that support me south africa i mean also on these walls or what you what you call stop frame animation used like that as a feeling for me of fulfillment somehow starting from beginning to end and i did one animation in palestine now tell us a bit about that that was extraordinary well you know i think to a point in south africa way to proceed janice but when i felt. the conditions they were becoming extremely complicated with criminality and so forth so it became a quite a dangerous situation for myself and i thought why not just leave this danger and go to pakistan you know so. ok. but but but more was thinking of trying to find a jew graphical battle well political battle well and i've been driving into the

west bank for the last 4 years and i was deeply moved by situation. especially the city of judy co. moved by this or this particular place it's one of the oldest if not the oldest inhabited city in the world that it involves and you know and i felt that this was an interesting space for me to bring my continually practice and money. that with the ancient wolf. there are some extraordinary results of that and. we've just about done we should just mention you're in both spoke at the coons busy until february of big exhibition that also if people are interested of course you're on instagram and we show that that way you getting more and more phone humans thanks very much the big if you want another will be broken road. time now for $100.00 german must reads

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the british photographer rachel taliban has a predilection for the sable specifically the waves now on the southeast coast of england with all the interest in recent times of how climate change is affecting us is a straight only too well for the ocean. when the sea churns and whales when the tides come in and gales with the water that's when the british way photographer rachel tal afar springs into action. i'm just going to watch the way stress they may show up. on the beaches of england's south east coast she takes spectacular photos of the scene as if she were out in the midst of it. it is. photographing waves means dealing with

a constantly changing subject. so if you could see that if you get one really big way the next to me to be after it at this beach and many beaches will force a big big. surge there people will see the 1st before i take a picture and then they're looking at the camera that's 2 more cabbage. rachel tonopah true international attention with her photo series sirens she took the pictures during especially intense storms involving winds up to 150 kilometers per hour and waves as high as 15 meters it was the 8th of february 26th which was storm images and i spent the day here exactly where we are now and it was 6 hours of obsoletes or steak absolutely brilliant photographer. she gave every wave she photographed for the series a name taken from methodology medusa. decide in making the giant waves

seem like raging guns or demons. if you freeze the sea at a really fast shutter spate a 1000th of a 2nd or thereabouts there are amazing shapes. and this is an example this one is called loki the norse trickster god he looks like he's talking to good law for. the photographer has only was loved to see these mysterious and on earth 3 qualities but she also senses that now if poses an entirely new kind of menace i spent a lifetime looking at the sea i'm not this coast and i'm not a scientist but it fails to amaze that the incidence of a severe still only case has cried which from a photographic perspective based quite exciting thought is obviously also has other ramifications. that when the sea becomes smooth and

tranquil at any time it's time for rachel tom the party to head home again. to log most of us she's not interested in a calm state mole stories also in culture from around the world on our website at g.w. dot com slash culture so for now. our

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