” Inspired by South Africa’s vibrant daily street life, photographer Ed Suter began a personal project shooting street style photographs of fashion, graphics and street art.

This collection was published by Quivertree Publications in 2012 in a book called ‘Sharp Sharp’, showcasing the great style on the streets of Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.

After photographs from “Sharp Sharp” were exhibited in Paris, Ed stopped off in Accra, the capital city of Ghana, on his way home to spend a week shooting on the streets there.

“Sharp Sharp was all about energy and colour and I was hoping to find that in even more intensity in Accra. The colors of the fabrics everywhere in Ghana were beautiful and intense, but they weren’t all I focused on. I also photographed young boxers, hand painted signs and what felt like incongruous Soviet-style architecture. The work in Ghana became more about portraits on the streets rather than images shot in what has become typical street style, mostly due to the brightness of the light and quite a lot of clutter I wanted to avoid in the backgrounds.”

Ed hopes to continue the idea as Sharp Sharp Africa – featuring one country from south, west, east and north Africa – with an east African country on the wishlist for this year. (via 10and5)

(Source: ghanailoveyou, via acornwitch)

ED SUTER. I am a photographer based in Cape Town. I was born in England but grew up in South Africa and after university went to live in New York for 5 years and London for 12 years. While in London, I studied photography at the London College of Printing and began my professional career taking on-set photographs in the television industry. In 2006 I returned to South Africa and since then have worked as a photographer for a range of local and international publications and private clients shooting portraiture, street style fashion and interiors.

My career is a crazy blend of my own obsessions and commissions from great clients, and sometimes the line blurs. That’s the perfect moment, when both the client and myself are so in synch that we are obsessing over the same thing.

I am inspired by the vibrancy of the street life I come across daily in South Africa and a few years ago I began shooting street style photographs of fashion, graphics and street art as a personal project while I travelled the country on assignment. These photographs were published in 2012 as a collection called “Sharp Sharp” which looks at great style on the streets of Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.

I also use my images on a range of products and have designed tableware, fabrics and other products for some of South Africa’s leading retailers.

To keep up with my work and my adventures, please follow me on twitter: EdSuter
Or visit my Facebook page: Ed Suter Design.