Introduction by Athol Fugard

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Dear Richard,

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Whether it is the hard-life and weather-beaten faces of farm labourers, placid Merino sheep, the exquisite rust details on the bogies at Noupoort, or the awesome rock formations that spell out the age of the Karoo's ancient landscape, the variety that you have captured so movingly is truly of an infinite order.  Fortunately for us, we do not have to take a playwright's word for that infinite beauty; in this instance we have the silent witness of your camera. I cannot but believe that anyone who sits down with your book and gives it  the time and consideration that it deserves will, as I did, want to pack a suitcase and head for that more spiritual of all the wonderful South African landscapes.

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Athol Fugard.

Feb 2004