| SOUTH AFRICA SERIES Jen Mazer spent four months in South Africa during university in 2002, studying multiculturalism and social change. She lived with a family in a black township in Cape Town for the first month of her stay. Jen then traveled across the country, staying in a rural Xhosa village in the Transkei near Peddie, visiting the Kalahari Desert with the San (Bushmen) elders, and receiving lectures from various experts in their fields. In 2004 Jen had the opportunity to go back to South Africa, leading a group of American High School students on a five-week summer program to promote cross-cultural learning. During the course of the trip, Jen re-visited the Transkei, this time staying in the Xhosa Ikhamanga Village for a few nights. She then lived with another family for ten days in the Griqua community Kranshoek, along the Indian ocean. These photographs are a result of her travels. |
