Neighbors, Cape Town
Last Easter I traveled with my two sons to visit the fourth member of our nuclear family—my husband, their father—who has been assigned responsibility for his company’s Jo’burg office. It was our first trip. On the plane—a night flight—we wondered as we flew south over the sleeping continent. What unexpected things would we find in a place where constellations are unfamiliar, the seasons switched, foods like springbok and biltong grace menus, man-eating sharks cruise bays, penguins waddle along beaches and townships still teem and thrive?
This is a first answer.
–Natalia Sarkissian
Soweto, Johannesburg
Below Table Mountain, Cape Town
Near Regina Mundi, Johannesburg
Art on the Green, Cape Town
Art in Soweto, Johannesburg
Hill, Cape Town
Near the Abandoned Gold Mines, Johannesburg
Safari, Gauteng Province
Penguin Safari, Western Cape
Guarded Compound, Johannesburg
Houses of Landudno Beach, Cape Peninsula
Girl, Pretoria
Girls, Soweto
Ladies at the Zoo, Pretoria
Girl, Landudno Beach
Family, Landudno
Monument to the 1976 Uprising, Soweto
Mandela’s Prison, Robben Island, Cape Town
Apartheid Museum, Gold Rush City
Pretoria
Cape Point
Near Sandton, Gauteng Province
Cape of Good Hope
–Natalia Sarkissian
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Natalia Sarkissian has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been a contributing editor at Numéro Cinq since 2010.
As always from you, these are extraordinary. Thank you for letting Numero Cinq make them available to us.
Thanks Diane, so glad you enjoyed them.
Absolutely Stunning!
Laurie, Thanks! I appreciate it.
Nat, these are so wonderful. The one that resonated most with me was the guarded compound in Jo’burg. I felt oppressed in Capetown by the feeling of fear and the ways I was taught to accommodate to it. So looking forward to seeing you again at BWW.
Thanks Jean. Yes, learning to live with that fear on a daily basis is required.