Ella and Betty Marais swimming in the dam that their father, Freek Marais, built. In this isolated community, people would find their water during the long droughts by scooping it from holes (which they called gorê) dug in the river-bed. In 1966, Marais was the only man there to have put in a pump which sent water to a dam that he built near his house.

printed 2006
silver gelatin print on fibre paper
41 x 27cm

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