Mogapaesi advances in visual arts
Friday, July 14, 2023 | 40 Views |
Busy at work: Mogapaesi creating one of his artworks
While Mogapaesi, otherwise known as ‘King Fox’, carved his name as a brilliant photojournalist in the early 2000s, switching to fine art was never a struggle for him.
He had been accustomed to ‘drawing with light’ as a photographer for more than a decade, but he says when the time came to drop his camera for a brush, it was easy.
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