Yasser Booley is 'listening to his lens.' Making pictures from the age of 17, Booley peers his world as a meerkat, or mierkat as he calls himself. His uninhibited account of the lives of factory workers, partyers, the unemployed, streetwanderers, exhausted commuters crammed in trains and protesters at political rallies bears witness of a great compassion and even intimacy with the world around him, his world, South Africa.
In an interview with Design Indaba he says: “Very often there is this unspoken agreement: I am allowing you to take my photo so that you can tell people my story.”
Rather than the violence, the pain and the blood – images too confronting, he feels –, Booley tells stories, real stories of dignity and understanding.
Imagining a world with no them and us.
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