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Durban Street Life by Tyler Dolan

South African photographer Tyler Dolan took to the streets of Durban for his latest series ‘Walking the Streets.’ His main goal was to document Durban Street life by capturing the daily life of the people, how they live, how they work, and even how they play.

What he discovers is mostly poverty, but also the typical African street hustle, with people basically doing what they have to do to survive. Africans are the masters of survival, of making something out of nothing regardless of the hand they are dealt. 

Dolan is in the process of putting together a book on his work and adventures on the streets of Durban, but for now here are some of the shots he captured along the way. As he weaves from alley to alley, and house to house, colours, textures and stories come alive

The language in this text is so off-putting. “What he discovers is mostly poverty…Africans are the masters of survival”, typical othering lingo used by disturbingly over-curious white pseudo-intellectuals and cultural anthropologists.

Once again, this sort of thing speaks to the almost limitless access white photographers - especially white men - have in documenting the lives of people in communities outside of their own. I’m just about ready to pick up my camera and walk into the high-classed suburbs of Camps Bay and visual document the lives of the mostly wealthy white population that live there, but I doubt very much I would be received with quite the same openness that such photographers as Tyler Dolan are. Pieter Hugo is another one that comes to mind.

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