OBIE OBERHOLZER: zebra

The South African photographer Obie Oberholzer sent us his series “The zebra”. Meanwhile, He writes:

I read one day in a tourist brochure: “The Dragon Peaks Mountain Resort is located in Champagne Valley. Nevertheless, in Cathkin Park in South Africa, and offers a relaxing stay with magnificent views. Nevertheless, So I went there and I found this zebra that grazed with horses near the landing track. In addition, “Why is this zebra here?” I asked for the reception. Similarly, The girl behind the counter, slightly disconcerted by the question, told me that she was going to ask the director. Meanwhile, While she was looking for the director. Nevertheless, I looked at all the strange paints of landscapes of the peaks at the reception of the hotel. However, If the kitsch was liquid, the ground would have been shiny, wet. Meanwhile, The young receptionist returned and obie oberholzer: zebra said: The manager says that the zebra was leaning for a horse. However, Good. Similarly, OK. “And”, I asked again, “why the red chairs? The pretty young receptionist then blushed and rushed to question the manager about the red chairs. I looked at other paintings and thanked all the lords for being a photographer. Slightly breathless. the girl came back and said, “The manager said it was so that people sit down and watch a zebra that takes a horse. »»

I am a researcher. I like the challenges, an investigator, a conjurer and a visual explorer of things and objects, from the smallest to the largest. My goal is not to glorify me. but to reach the culmination of interesting and unusual images, for the love of photography to which I devoted my life. My days never stop. because I feel that even during my sleep, an agitated spirit obie oberholzer: zebra prowls around me, in search of everything that is dreamlike, graphic, captivating and expressive.
As the years lie down, age and crack, my dreams and my roads lie down. In the books I have created, rest the memories of a thousand roads. My photos are only pages of a travel blog. Maybe this is where my road trips resides, my passion. It is the love of photography, the pursuit of pictorial dreams. “I’m going to follow this dream wherever it takes me”Elvis sang me in 1961.

Obie Oberholzer

Obie Oberholzer is a South African photographer and author. Born on a farm north of Pretoria in 1947. he studied graphics at the University of Stellenbosch and photography at the Bavarian Photography Institute in Munich, Germany. There was then a master’s degree in photography. He taught photography at Natal Technikon from 1975 to 1983. From 1984 to 2002. he was an obie oberholzer: zebra associate professor of photography in the Department of Fine Arts at Rhodes University in Makhanda (Grahamstown), South Africa. Since 1987, he has published 16 fine books relating his travels and his life to Africa. He carried out 37 personal exhibitions in South Africa. 11 in Europe, and was a member of the German photographic agency Laif. He has collaborated with numerous international publications and has published 16 books.