In vain?

 Today, dubbed Black Tuesday in South Africa, a secrecy bill was passed which, if it becomes law, will allow the incarceration, for up to 25 years, of journalists or whistle blowers who make state information, including political corruption, publicly known. 

I think Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said it well, "It is insulting to all South Africans to be asked to stomach legislation that could be used to outlaw whistle-blowing and investigative journalism... and that makes the state answerable only to the State."

Protesters gathered outside Parliament wearing black in hopes that the bill would be voted against. 

Oh Dear Megan.

Waatlemoen.

Lee-Anne playing around in between shots for Oh Dear Megan's Spring/Summer shoot. Coming Soon!

Clicks.

My beautiful cousin Clio got married to the lovelysome Zizo on Friday. So much love.

Bright Young Things

In September I was asked to be part of an exciting project for 36Boutique's (now known as Style36) online fashion magazine. The shoot called Bright Young Things features young designers Barbara Lotter of Babette, Oriel Barnard of Lisp and Vicky Fenner of Joya jewellery. I loved working with this all-girl team as the Behind-the-Scenes photographer.

Everyone involved in the shoot was also featured as a Bright Young Thing and 36Boutiques did a mini Q&A with each of us. Mine is here.

Credits: 

Fashion Editor - Kate Chauncey

Photographer - Danielle Clough

Stylist - Chloe Andrea

Make-up Artist - Toni Greenberg

Behind-the-scenes photographer - Me!

36 also squeezed in a turban tutorial shoot with fashion blogger Aisha Baker of Baked the Blog on the same day so she features in a few of the pics.

Here are my fave "making of"s, the rest you can see here and the final shoot you can see here.

Danielle (Dee) - Photographer

Chloe - Stylist

 Toni - MUA 

Kate (The Pessimiss) - Fashion Editor

Chasing Summer

A shoot Kate Desmarais and I did on the first weekend of October. All the clothes can be found at A-list boutique in Long Street, Cape Town. 

Credits

Stylist: Kate Desmarais

Model: Zoë Macfarlane from Boss Models

Make-up artist: Marieke Sixx

Toffie Food Festival

Featured on Handsome Things!

Hanneke from Handsome Things asked if she could do a feature on some of my photos from previous shoots that didn't make the final edit for some 

or other reason. These are some extras from In the Hall with the Candlestick and this is what Hanneke had to say:

What happens to the photos that aren’t chosen to be featured in a fashion spread? Well they are left to “gather pixel dust” (as Lauren Fowler would say) in a desktop folder somewhere. We’ve decided to get out our virtual feather duster and dust off these beautiful pics that weren’t selected for Alix-Rose Cowie’s beautiful fashion shoot In the hall with the candle stick.

While I’m dusting, Alix-Rose tells us a bit more about herself, her photography, her inspirations and aspirations.

You can read the rest of the post HERE.