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<p>“I am trying to keep a record of what is happening inside.”</p>

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<p>Yasser Booley is 'listening to his lens.' Making pictures from the age of 17, Booley peers his world as a meerkat, or mierkat as he calls himself. His uninhibited account of the lives of factory workers, partyers, the unemployed, streetwanderers, exhausted commuters crammed in trains and protesters at political rallies bears witness of a great compassion and even intimacy with the world around him, his world, South Africa.<br />In an interview with Design Indaba he says: “Very often there is this unspoken agreement: I am allowing you to take my photo so that you can tell people my story.”<br /> Rather than the violence, the pain and the blood – images too confronting, he feels –,  Booley tells stories, real stories of dignity and understanding.</p>

<p>Yasser Booley is 'listening to his lens.' Making pictures from the age of 17, Booley peers his world as a meerkat, or mierkat as he calls himself. His uninhibited account of the lives of factory workers, partyers, the unemployed, streetwanderers, exhausted commuters crammed in trains and protesters at political rallies bears witness of a great compassion and even intimacy with the world around him, his world, South Africa.<br />In an interview with Design Indaba he says: “Very often there is this unspoken agreement: I am allowing you to take my photo so that you can tell people my story.”<br /> Rather than the violence, the pain and the blood – images too confronting, he feels –,  Booley tells stories, real stories of dignity and understanding.</p> 2017-01-17T13:52:58+01:00 2017-01-17T13:52:58+01:00 https://www.zammagazine.com/photography/2-yasser-booley-an-unspoken-agreement/709-yasser-booley-04 ZAM crm@zammagazine.com

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<ul> <ul> <li><span class="label">Photography: </span><span class="value">From the book <em>South Africa at Liberty</em>. ©Yasser Booley. Courtesy of Yasser Booley and Joan Legalamitlwa<br /></span></li> <li><span class="label">Artist website:</span> <a href="https://yasserbooley.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="alternate noopener noreferrer">www.yasserbooley.wordpress.com</a></li> <li><span class="label">Text: </span>Bart Luirink and Nicole Segers with thanks to Yasser Booley</li> <li><span class="label">Quote: </span>Yasser Booley: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQIrnfU4vLM&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="alternate noopener noreferrer">Out from behind the lens (Part 1)</a> | Design Indaba, 2015</li> <li><span class="label">Editor: </span><a href="https://manzoo.nl/" target="_blank" rel="alternate noopener noreferrer">Christina Månsson</a> for ZAM</li> <li><span class="label">Curator: </span><a href="http://www.nicolesegers.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nicole Segers</a> for ZAM, February 2017. Read the introduction <a href="http://www.zammagazine.com/photography/" target="_blank" rel="alternate noopener noreferrer">here</a></li> <li><span class="label">Special thanks to: </span><a href="https://africalia.be/en/productions/photobooks/yasser-booley/" target="_blank" rel="alternate noopener noreferrer">Africalia</a></li> </ul> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li><span class="value">Want to buy the book by Yasser Booley. <a href="http://www.zammagazine.com/perspectives/blog/464-new-photo-book-by-yasser-booley" target="_blank" rel="alternate noopener noreferrer">Click here</a></span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span class="value">Liked this Photo Edition? <a href="http://www.zammagazine.com/component/civicrm/?task=civicrm/profile/create&amp;gid=13&amp;reset=1" target="_blank" rel="alternate noopener noreferrer">Subscribe</a> to the ZAM newsletter</span></li> </ul>

<ul> <ul> <li><span class="label">Photography: </span><span class="value">From the book <em>South Africa at Liberty</em>. ©Yasser Booley. Courtesy of Yasser Booley and Joan Legalamitlwa<br /></span></li> <li><span class="label">Artist website:</span> <a href="https://yasserbooley.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="alternate noopener noreferrer">www.yasserbooley.wordpress.com</a></li> <li><span class="label">Text: </span>Bart Luirink and Nicole Segers with thanks to Yasser Booley</li> <li><span class="label">Quote: </span>Yasser Booley: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQIrnfU4vLM&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="alternate noopener noreferrer">Out from behind the lens (Part 1)</a> | Design Indaba, 2015</li> <li><span class="label">Editor: </span><a href="https://manzoo.nl/" target="_blank" rel="alternate noopener noreferrer">Christina Månsson</a> for ZAM</li> <li><span class="label">Curator: </span><a href="http://www.nicolesegers.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nicole Segers</a> for ZAM, February 2017. Read the introduction <a href="http://www.zammagazine.com/photography/" target="_blank" rel="alternate noopener noreferrer">here</a></li> <li><span class="label">Special thanks to: </span><a href="https://africalia.be/en/productions/photobooks/yasser-booley/" target="_blank" rel="alternate noopener noreferrer">Africalia</a></li> </ul> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li><span class="value">Want to buy the book by Yasser Booley. <a href="http://www.zammagazine.com/perspectives/blog/464-new-photo-book-by-yasser-booley" target="_blank" rel="alternate noopener noreferrer">Click here</a></span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span class="value">Liked this Photo Edition? <a href="http://www.zammagazine.com/component/civicrm/?task=civicrm/profile/create&amp;gid=13&amp;reset=1" target="_blank" rel="alternate noopener noreferrer">Subscribe</a> to the ZAM newsletter</span></li> </ul>