Motion Pictures Vol. 1: Sanza-Hanza
Photographs by Jamie-James Medina & Matthew Salacuse

Published by POLITE COMPANY. Bronx, New York. 2008.
Sponsored by Street Carnage Books & Hideout Gallery

Soweto is South Africa's largest ghetto, a sprawling stretch of townships on the outskirts of Johannesburg. With an estimated population of one million, this former centre of the anti-apartheid struggle faces chronic problems of poverty and overcrowding, and remains a notoriously dangerous place to live.

It is here where you’ll find Train-Surfing, the semi-suicidal act of climbing outside, on top and under the city’s public trains while in full-flight. Born in the early Nineties out of a restless desire to embrace life (and death) after years of oppression, Train-Surfing has evolved into something of an underground sport, not unlike skateboarding in the 1970’s.

‘Motion Pictures Vol. 1: Sanza-Hanza’, a book-zine from photographers Jamie-James Medina and Matthew Salacuse, follows V.I.R.U.S. (Very Intelligent Riders Usually Survive), a gang of young Surfers searching for the ultimate ride or ‘play’ as they call it, testing their already weak embrace on mortality.

Limited edition, signed & numbered copies of 'Motion Pictures Vol. 1: Sanza-Hanza' are available from:

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ONLINE:
Street Carnage

MANHATTAN:
St. Marks Bookshop, 31 Third Ave.
Reed Space,151 Orchard St.

BROOKLYN:
Spoonbill and Sugartown, 218 Bedford Ave.

LONDON:
No One, 1 Kingsland Road.
Magma, 117-119 Clerkenwell Rd. & 8 Earlham St.
The Photographers Gallery, 5 Great Newport St.

MANCHESTER:
Magma, 22 Oldham St.

PARIS:
La Photo Librairie, 49 Avenue Villiers.
The Lazy Dog, 2 Passage Thiéré.
OFR 20 Rue Dupetit Thouars.
Yvon Lambert, Rue Vieille du Temple.
Librairie 7L,7 rue de Lille

BERLIN:
Departmentstore, Quartier 206 Friedrichstrasse 71.
König Taschen - im Museum für Fotografie Jebenstraße 2.

SWEDEN:
Papercut, Krukmakarg. 3.