Yazeed Kamaldien - View category While we were talking... I was doodling (1999)

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This website is a showcase of the travel writing and photography of Yazeed Kamaldien, a South African journalist and photographer.

Yazeed started his career at a daily newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa, and has since worked as an editor of a national newspaper for teenagers, a freelance writer for various magazines and newspapers as well as Internet publications.

He has also produced radio documentaries and news reports for a community radio station in Cape Town. His journalistic work has taken him to various countries and he has also worked as a journalist in Egypt, Germany and Jordan. He has a keen interest in travel writing.

Yazeed completed a four-year journalism course at the Peninsula Technikon in Cape Town and a post-graduate diploma in media management at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.

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While we were talking... I was doodling (1999)

View category While we were talking... I was doodling (1999)

I spent a lot of time on the phone to set up appointments and interviews and also did some telephonic interviews for stories. While the talking went on I would find myself doodling at moments of frustration - when will this call end - or lapsed concentration when the talking became idle chatter.

I decided to collect all those doodles from my notebooks and do something with them. I photocopied them and enlarged some of them. Pasted them on to white A4 pages and coloured them in. Used scraps of paper to create patterns around them.

I’m by no means saying this is some form of high art. This is just a fun project that I did and now I am sharing it on this website.