I collect gingers is heading to Cape Town!
Yay! Finally after photographing 200 gingers in JHB, I am finally going national! I will be having a two day photoshoot in Cape Town on Sat 7 and Sun 8 January 2012. Please spread the word around the country for me. Gingers from all around SA can email me at antheapokroy@gmail.com as I will eventually [...]
Latest Ginger Tally = 164
This weekend, 22 and 23 October, I shot a record number of gingers – 40 over 2 days! Next lot of photos to be uploaded asap. Follow me on Twitter and Facebook to be notified about when they are up! ginger love x
Artwork for Drakensberg Exhibition
This last weekend Assemblage was invited to exhibit at the Smoking Dragon Women’s Festival at the Amphitheatre Backpackers in the Drakensberg. 10 female Assemblage artists participated, including myself. These are the works that I exhibited. Each strip is 1.1 metres long by 11 cm high. Titles: Strawberry Blonde to Titian Orange to Copper Red to [...]
The Ginger Revolution
A collaboration between myself, Nicole Ackermann and Dianne Silva. Produced in Oct/Nov 2010.
The Ginger Gathering
On Friday 25th March, at the Assemblage Launch exhibition, 7 Gingers gathered for 15 minutes in a ‘Ginger Only’ rectangle. Photograph by: Dirk Chalmers
Ginger Flash Mob, 25 March 2011
I am organising a ginger flash mob on Friday evening 25th March at an art exhibition in Main Street Life in Johannesburg (address below). What is a Flash Mob? A Flash Mob is a term coined in 2003 to denote a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and [...]
Interview with Secret City Project
On Sunday 12th Dec 2010, I was picked up by Mike Sharman and Chris Kerr-Peterson, from Secret City Projects in a MINI Countryman to be interviewed about the icollectgingers project. Check it out… Make sure to visit Secret City Project and Mike Sharman‘s blogs to see the interesting things they get up to.
Gingers in a MINI
On Friday 29th November, I attended the MINI Countryman launch. Myself and 2 other gingers, Jena Dover and Saul Stark, (and some cans of Fanta orange) were guests of MINI spokesperson Sias du Plessis (legendary ginger). We were dressed in I <3 Gingers, 100% Ginger, Ginger Like me, Ginga Ninja t-shirts, and the 4 of [...]
Ginger tally=44
44 gingers photographed in 6 shoots. Next shoot will be in Jan 2010. Contact me if you are ginger or know gingers! antheapokroy@gmail.com
Update: Ginger tally = 29
So far, I have photographed 29 gingers (including myself) in the course of 4 shoots. I have only uploaded images from the first 3 shoots at this point… 4th shoot photos will come this week. The blog will only feature one photo of each ginger. I will upload more photos on to Flickr as soon [...]
Still Life with Woodpecker, Tom Robbins
A friend recommended this book to me after I told him about the ginger project. How fitting that there is a book dedicated to gingers trying to take over the world. Wonderful Here are some interesting excerpts about red heads from the book: “The Twelve Most Famous Redheads: Lucille Ball, comedienne Gen. George Custer, military [...]
Wikipedia definition: Red hair
Red hair (also referred to as titian or ginger hair) varies from a deep burgundy through burnt orange to bright copper. It is characterized by high levels of the reddish pigment pheomelanin and relatively low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin. People with red hair are often referred to as redheads or gingers. Approximately 1% [...]
Ginger Kids, South Park episode
Watch the episode at this link: http://allsp.com/l.php?id=e136 Some interesting lines from the episode: ‘The only way to fight hate is with more hate’ ‘Gingers are the chosen people, the chosen race’ ‘Exterminate every child not ginger’
An amazing red head
One of my favourite red heads… Florence and the Machines And… an AWESOME song! Dog days are over I was actually first introduced to this song by a random acquaintance sending me a link saying I look like her (not at all true though!).