Map Lovers is a project started by Cape Town-based artist Natascha Petersmann, which involves blending photographic and illustrated works with overlays of maps or topographical charts, creating unique layered artworks. As a seasoned traveller, the idea to combine travel photography and maps came to Natascha a few years ago, and she fleshed out the concept while on a round-the-world trip las..

Capetonian visual artist Jean Brundrit's Out Of Site exhibition opened at The AVA Gallery last night. The exhibition comprises multiple bodies of work, including a portraiture series titled The Space Inside and brilliant conceptual 3D scans titled Making the Waves. From the statement: "As the pun in the title implies, the show takes both sight- as in vision- and site- as in place- as starting poi..

Hotel Verde is a contemporary new hotel situated very close to the Cape Town International Airport. From inception, the development has been planned to be as environmentally conscious as possible, resulting in one of the greenest hotels in Africa. The building generates electricity and heating through a combination of wind turbines, geothermal heat and solar panels on the roof, and maintains th..

Sacha Specker, a self-described photographer, voyager and waterman, opened his Aquatic Perspectives exhibition at &Union last weekend. As the title suggests, the exhibition features photographs shot from the ocean, both above and below the surface. "I find fulfillment, peace and joy while immersed in the ocean, camera in hand, always moving and always searching for an interesting image to u..

Capetonian photographer Andrew Putter's latest exhibition, Native Work, opened at Stevenson Cape Town last night, alongside Claudette Schreuder's Great Expectations and Ian Grose' New Pictures. Native Work is a series of 42 portraits of contemporary black Capetonians, 21 of which are black and white portraits in tribal or traditional costume, and 21 colour portraits in the sitter's own clothing..