Highland people of Lesotho 1998

Herd Boy, Thaba Tseka, central highlands.

Forfeiting school to become a herdsman. Family pressures still say looking after the live stock is priority.

Watercolour on handmade paper 70/50 cm
by Simon Bird - sold

picture by local herd boy.

African Guitar, Thaba Tseka.

Home made Guitar fashioned from a Sunseed oil can, wood and fishing wire. They work the allotments to supply the school with vegetables.

Watercolour on handmade paper 70/50 cm
by Simon Bird - sold

Picture by local.

Thaba Tseka Bus station.

Luckily for me buses in Lesotho only leave when their full.

Watercolour on handmade paper 50/70 cm
by Simon Bird - sold

picture by local people

Ma Ma Constance, Port St Johns , South Africa.

She says she use to work as a nanny for a white family in Durban. She was a confident character and spoke her mind clearly and objectively about her experiences during apartite.

Watercolour on handmade paper 50/70 cm
by Simon Bird £100

picture by local old lady.