• There’s an Elephant in the City.

    UrbanElephant Photography belongs to Robyn Viljoen, a young and inspired photographer trying to find her camera feet in the hustle-bustle of Johannesburg. For any info or freelance job offers, please see the contact page.

    "But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins." Oscar Wilde.

©Robyn Viljoen, Kempton Park Hospital 6

The Shadow Falls

The Shadow Falls “Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion”   These poignant words are from T’ S. Eliot’s poem, The Hollow Men, which is a contemplation of modern man. I found these words echoing through the empty, vacuous halls of the abandoned Kempton Park Hospital and similarly through the muddled … Read more

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Go here, https://vimeo.com/58242865, to watch my first ever stop motion video done for my lovely friends, Andre and Renata, as their wedding invitation. The original soundtrack is by Tommy Verschuur and is an option if you would also like an OST. Let me know if you are keen to make your own stop motion video for … Read more

Bounty Hunter’s Fashion Shoot

Bounty Hunter’s is an awesome little second hand, charity store on 4th Ave, Melville. I love second Hand things… especially jewelry and books. There’s something magically beautiful about a book whose pages have been silently turned by someone unknown. Or a necklace that has rested on the collar bones of an anonymous lover. Questions unanswered and … Read more

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Slow Down

This is a series taken on the road between Johannesburg and Henneman, a small town in the Freestate in October 2012. I have often thought how unfortunate it is that we too often experience our beautiful landscape from the inside of moving cars. A camera has the amazing ability to freeze time and capture the ethereal landscape … Read more

Knees. Varanasi, India. 2011 (1024x683)
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The Hollow Men – T.S. Elliot

I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion; … Read more

James Nachtwey
  • Please note that all images by UrbanElephant Photography are the property of Robyn Viljoen.
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