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Mogapaesi advances in visual arts

Busy at work: Mogapaesi creating one of his artworks
Busy at work: Mogapaesi creating one of his artworks

Forty-three-year-old fine artist, Lefoko Mogapaesi can be best described as a man who has found a home away from home after leaving his long-time photojournalist career.

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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