Gary Hirson Photography

While traveling in Laos I visited a coffee plantation on the Bolaven Plateau. While home-staying with a local family I got experience family life with the locals while learning all about the local coffee which included; growing, harvesting, roasting, and drinking the brew black. Fresh Cup magazine, a USA based trade magazine bought the story.

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Every 6 years all of the cables used to run the Table Mounatin cableway system are changed. Under supervision of the Swiss engineers who manufactured the cableway system, the Table mountain Cableway Company staff changed and maintained the whole cableway operation. I was commissioned to document it

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Market vendors are unique, zany, foreigners, locals and salespeople. These portraits are some of the faces I encountered at a local market in Cape Town

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A recycling company has taken the initiative to employ the homeless on a part time basis to help them collect recyclable garbage. This initiative has been so successful that some of the homeless employees have now been able to move off the streets and live a life what we know as normal. Vuvuzela magazine bought the story.

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A walk in the wild with the Chacma Baboons in the Southern Cape Peninsula- "Abouttime"- The 1 Time in-flight magazine bought the story

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The "Burning Man" festival was held in Africa for the first time. "Afrika Burns" as it was called was absolutely fantastic. The extreme conditions in the Northern Cape Karoo at times made the venue stunningly beautiful as well as quite challenging.

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While travellling in Mozambique I did a photo essay of the indigenous fishermen/women

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The Russ Newich, South American jazz trio played a few gigs around Cape Town. I was commissioned to document them

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