by 2summers | Jul 3, 2020 | Boxing, COVID-19, Hillbrow/Yeoville, Johannesburg
I’ve been working out with George Khosi at the Hillbrow Boxing Club for many years. Up until the lockdown started I’d been going to Hillbrow about three times a week, every week, since 2012. George Khosi, coach of the Hillbrow Boxing Club. I shot this...
by 2summers | Jun 17, 2016 | Boxing, Hillbrow/Yeoville, Johannesburg, My Favorite Joburg People
I recently announced a storytelling project I’m working on called My Favorite Joburg People. I chose four people in Joburg, each of whom has an amazing story to tell, and interviewed them and shot their portraits. I’ll be presenting the stories and portraits at an...
by 2summers | Mar 16, 2016 | Boxing, Emotions, Johannesburg
Warning: This post contains graphic language. Three days ago there was a terrorist attack in Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast), in a resort town called Grand Bassam not far from the capital city of Abidjan. About 16 people were killed, plus the six gunmen who were...
by 2summers | Mar 8, 2015 | Boxing, Hillbrow/Yeoville, Johannesburg
I took a quick photowalk through Hillbrow and Yeoville this morning with my friend Ruth and some guys from the Hillbrow Boxing Club, including my boxing coach George Khosi. I’m saving most of the photos I took for a project that I’ll be revealing soon. But...
by 2summers | Feb 12, 2013 | Boxing, Hillbrow/Yeoville, Johannesburg, Music/Festivals
Actually, “jumped around like a maniac” is a better description of what I did. But you know what I mean. This is Jovi, lead singer of a band from Soweto called BCUC. He made me jump around like a maniac. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the terrible...
by 2summers | Jan 24, 2013 | Boxing, Johannesburg
On Tuesday evening I received this text message from George Khosi, coach of the Hillbrow Boxing Club: there is an accident at the gym the ring is damaged by a tax coach It took me a while to figure out that “tax” meant “taxi”. When I arrived at...