BD Live | Chris Thurman:

LIKE most people, I live more and more in the virtual world. So I get less and less information from actually observing the physical world around me. This has its advantages, from keeping up with geopolitics to practical stuff like planning my journey home from work: from my office window I can see the first 500m of the road, but social media — far more effectively than old-school radio traffic reports — tell me about my route options after that… Read more 

Image: Zodwa II, taken in Amsterdam this year, is a self-portrait by Zanele Muholi and forms part of her exhibition, Somnyama Ngonyama, at the Stevenson Gallery in Braamfontein. Picture: STEVENSON GALLERY