On Africa Time - Signed by Pierre Crocquet

Published by Bell-Roberts Publishing, 2003, hardcover, large landscape format, illustrated, condition: new.

 An Uplifting Perspective of a Continent Where Life is Lived, Not Rushed, Where Time is Savoured, Not Consumed

A beautiful book, celebrating outstanding moments from the photographer's travels throughout Africa. While bleak associations with Africa continue, Pierre Crocquet shows there is another face to the continent. An elegant, humorous, dignified, reflective and spiritual Africa exists. These uplifting elements are often overlooked or ignored.

On Africa Time is an attempt to portray the lesser-known 'Brighter Africa'. Images of daily life captured show a continent with its own identity and style. Life is lived differently here and the continent has its own interpretation of time - Africa Time. First impressions of the phrase assume it to mean that time is of no consequence. Perhaps the exact opposite is true - how can one enjoy time if one is continually preoccupied with not wasting it?

Pierre Crocquet (19712013) was a South African documentary photographer known for his deeply empathetic and humanist black-and-white portraits. Originally a chartered accountant in London, he abandoned a career in finance in 1999 to study at the London College of Printing. Returning to South Africa in 2001, he spent the next decade documenting the "existential being" of his subjects across the African continent.