Cape Town is renowned as a desirable holiday destination. Local & foreign media praise its beaches and mountains to attract affluent tourists to the city. But the city also has high unemployment rates and critical housing challenges with many of the working class and low income earners living in shacks, some being evicted as gentrification destroys poor neighbourhoods and long time residents find themselves ousted from family homes and forced to occupy abandoned buildings. This series illustrates from drone vantage point, some of the new, the old & the in between places the working class live.
Eric Miller became a photographer during the 1980’s South African state of emergency. He joined Afrapix, a progressive photo collective committed to documenting the struggle against apartheid
From 1988 he also worked for Reuters. Based in Cape Town he covered the last gasps of the Apartheid regime, the 1st breaths of the Mandela democracy and the changing face of South Africa & many other African countries over the next 2 decades, for a range of European & USA publications.
In the last few years he has worked on more in depth projects, books and this year completed his first documentary film.
