About Tshiamo Nkosana Junior Machobane 's work:
Photo Theme:
Building emotional archives of connection, family, and belonging.
Photo Story:
From the beginning of my relationship with Kgomotso Kiggy, affectionately known as “Kiggy with the nice pants” my connection to her existed long before I ever lifted a camera. I was drawn first to her presence: her curiosity, her quiet confidence, and the intentionality she carries into every space she enters. Photographing her and her brand, Long Season, emerged naturally from that closeness. What began as a simple desire to hold onto the moments we shared slowly evolved into a personal archive, one that traces our growth, our tenderness, and the unspoken language that formed between us. It stopped being about taking pictures; it became about documenting a relationship, honouring a person, and capturing the emotional texture of a world we were building together.
Film photography gave me permission to slow down. It taught me to breathe with each frame, to observe before capturing, and to approach storytelling with patience and presence. In a world obsessed with speed and precision, film allowed me to embrace softness, vulnerability, and imperfection. The grain, the blur, the unpredictable shadows these visual qualities became part of my language, grounding the work in honesty. Each photograph held the weight of a moment we could never repeat, a tenderness that felt fragile yet deeply anchoring. Through film, I learned not just how to see, but how to feel through the lens.
Long Season, in many ways, mirrors these values. It represents growth, cycles, patience, and a deep trust in the process and qualities that define not only the brand but our relationship. Photographing the brand became inseparable from photographing the person behind it. The images capture more than clothing or aesthetic expression, they hold the textures of our shared life. The laughter in between takes, quiet afternoons, long conversations about our dreams, small disagreements softened by understanding, and moments of stillness in which the world felt gentle. These everyday moments are often overlooked and became the emotional backbone of the project.
At its core, my practice is about building memory. It is about creating a visual home for the emotions, relationships, and family values that shape who we are. Through film, I try to preserve not just what we looked like, but how we felt present, connected, and held by something bigger than ourselves.
How long has Tshiamo Nkosana Junior Machobane loved photography:
Since 2018
How they discovered their passion for photography:
On my annual visits to my grandmother’s house in the Free State, 2017, my grandmother and I were packing away her old clothes when I came across a film camera she used to use when she was younger. I don’t know what drew me to it in that moment, but I took the camera with me when I returned to Johannesburg. From then on, my curiosity around the camera grew. Long before that discovery, I had always loved taking fashion photographs of my friends and family styling them, observing how they moved, and capturing their presence. Finding the camera felt like a quiet continuation of that instinct, deepening my relationship with image making and connecting my fascination with fashion and people to memory, inheritance, and storytelling.
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