Mashele MediaVisual stories about people, places and the things that shape us.

Photography and film by Zacharia Mashele, Cape Town.

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An older woman in a red doek wraps a checked blanket around the smiling bride, who wears Xhosa beadwork and a striped skirt — Elgene & Garth, LobolaView project

Selected work

Stories I’ve helped tell.

Title card of Mother City over Cape Town wrapped in cloud

Film, 2 min 33 s

01Documentary / Film

Mother City

Camera on a six-year documentary about the fight for well-located housing in Cape Town.

Frame from Two Sides of the Same City

Film, 2 min 35 s

02Advocacy / Film

Two Sides of the Same City

Two colleagues, one divided city. A short documentary made with Ndifuna Ukwazi.

A man rolls a burning tyre across a Bo-Kaap street as residents watch from the pavement

03Photography / Documentary

Land & Housing, Cape Town

Occupations, marches and the quiet hours in between, photographed alongside housing movements.

The IMPOWER team in evening wear gathered on a wide stone staircase

04Photography / Events

IMPOWER Turns 10

The IMPOWER team in evening wear, gathered on a wide stone staircase to mark ten years.

Frame from Poli-Tricks

05Explainer / Film

Poli-Tricks: Cape Town housing crisis

An episode of Ndifuna Ukwazi's series on Cape Town's housing crisis.

A graduate in gown and hood stands in a shaft of light beneath a stone archway

06Photography / Portrait

Dyantyi's Graduation

A graduate, a shaft of light and a stone archway.

Delegates listening in the audience at a Global Compact Network South Africa event

Film, 1 min 51 s

07Corporate / Film

Global Compact Network South Africa

Event highlights from the Global Compact Network South Africa.

Kyle kneels before Bianca in ankle-deep water that mirrors a clear blue sky

08Photography / Portrait

Kyle & Bianca

An engagement shoot in ankle-deep water that mirrors the sky.

I work between communications and visual storytelling, creating photography and film that make complex stories easier to see, understand and remember.

Photography

People. Places. Moments.

Portraits, celebrations and the gatherings of organisations, in three collections.

Enter photography

Five performers in sunglasses pose outdoors; the woman at the centre, in red satin, laughs with her arms open

Mbali in a rust-coloured dress, seated on a white ledge at night as champagne is poured into her raised glass — Mbali, birthday portrait

A woman in a cowhide-print shawl dances in the crowd beneath an umbrella hung with gifts — uMembeso

A woman in a beaded black veil laughs beneath a white blanket as a man in a waistcoat looks on — Elgene & Garth, Lobola

Film & Documentary

Stories that move.

Film & Documentary Video Production

Frame from Two Sides of the Same City

Short documentary · 2022

Two Sides of the Same City

2 min 35 s

Short documentary, 2022

Two Sides of the Same City

Produced by Zacharia. Since 1994, Cape Town's spatial divide has barely moved. Two colleagues, living vastly different lives in the same city.

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A line of people with red flags holds a banner reading 'City of Cape Town build affordable housing here!'

Documentary

Land, housing and the right to the city.

Occupations, marches and the private hours in between, photographed alongside the movements organising for well-located housing in Cape Town.

Documentary photography Documentary films

Services

Photography: Events · Editorial · Documentary · Corporate
Video: Documentary · Campaigns · Interviews · Events
Post-production: Editing · Colour · Photography Retouching
Creative: Visual Storytelling · Campaign Content · Digital Content

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