I have spent the past few years photographing in Khayelitsha, one of the many townships outside of Cape Town. I have been working with a woman named Momtolo who has lived in her shack in "Site C" in the heart of the Khayelitsha for the last 20 years. She has been my guide, my eyes, and my friend. Each week we have gone back to hand out photographs from the previous week. Many people have never had a photograph taken of them before. Together we have put together this exhibition of photographs of her family and her neighborhood.

Momtolo has cataracts and her sight has been growing worse over the past few months. She can no longer see the photographs when I bring them back each week, and yet she still suggests images for us to make, pointing out good light, and walking up and down the same street with me again and again looking for the street vendors, mechanics, tavern owners, and children that we photographed the previous week.

Momtolo, like all of her neighbors in the township, lives on the edge, marginalized by apartheid and its legacy of poverty and unemployment.

Weare selling these photographs in order to raise money for the community she lives in. We are currently working with a group of photographers from the township, teaching them the ins and outs of photography and business skills and helping to get their work into tourist shops so that they can eventually become self-employed. They are shooting with digital cameras donated by friends from around the world. If you have a digital camera that you would like to donate, please contact me.

We are selling the photos on this website (11x17") for $150. To purchase a photograph, please contact me at: sue@suejaye.com.