K-1 and DFA 28-105
My wife and I bought these baskets in Durban, South Africa, in 2001, from what was then called the NSA Gallery - Natal Society of Arts - and they have been a wall fixture since then, in every home we've lived in in the UK.
When we went to live in Sydney in 2006, and Adelaide in 2010, they stayed behind in the UK - friends volunteered for a spot of 'basket-sitting' because they're made from grass, and Australian quarantine rules are strictly enforced. The baskets were made by women who worked in a collective in Zimbabwe (I think in Bulawayo) so they are southern African in origin.
I always shoot in RAW+ and gently process the DNG's (mostly a hint of contrast and saturation) but this photograph is taken using the Satobi Custom Image, and I like the nostalgic look it has given to this image. I could be looking at a wall in a house in Glenwood, Durban, in 1977.
I often wish it were the case but life's chances have brought us here, and this is where our home is, and where our three children are, and where we call home.
The plant is a fiddle leaf fig, native to west Africa where it's found in tropical lowland forests. England is definitely not tropical but these plants do well indoors in well-lit rooms.
Another African connection, serendipitously so...
