Hlompho Letsielo Self Portrait

Photographer, Poet, Cartoonist

Perish Of Ra

Moments can be treasured...

DISPLAY YOUR ART

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About me

I'm a photojournalist currently working for the Public Eye News from 2009 when I started to be a permanent inhabitant of the planet 'Photography.' Following is a short bio from the UNDP that came after awarded Third Prize in the Picture This Contest by UNDP/AFP/Olympus, showing the people of Africa taking care of their environment. Also doing freelance jobs for some media houses and NGOs. I'm looking forward to assisting you in all your photographic needs.
I am based in Lesotho, Southern Africa, but very much willing to travel in any part of the world.

Hlompho Letsielo, Lesotho
A Sick Landscape Given Therapy
A community works to fill eroded ditches with stones
in Lesotho.

Hlompho is only 20, but already he has made photography his career. He grew up in the rural town of Mafeteng, Lesotho, a place, he said, that has been highly affected by climate change. After graduating from high school, he went to college to study graphic design, but had to drop out after the college closed. In 2008, he joined a local newspaper called the Public Eye News, where he now works full time as a cartoonist and a photographer.

“To me, photography is portraying the true identity of a subject in a precise way while simultaneously recognizing its importance,” Hlompho said.

Hlompho photographed the community of Ha-pena

Hlompho Letsielo

pena in Maseru, Lesotho. After years of helplessly watching as their land was gradually degraded by irresponsible farming, they “decided to take the bull by the horns,” Hlompho said. The community is now advocating for a ban on illegal and irresponsible cultivation along the river bank. They have also begun a land rehabilitation programme in partnership with Lesotho’s Ministry of Forestry and Land Reclamation. Here, we see community members filling dongas,or eroded ditches, with stones.

IN THE REALM OF DARKENING MUSE

''In grim realms of fantasies cloaked in dullness,
Life embraces death for its state is gone.
Devoured by the thick lust of darkness
Foretaste of the grave my soul sings thy tone
Upon grief the music tunes echoes of dread.

Trembling breath,stagnant as a dungeon's air.
Shackles of this hostile chamber seemed to chain
Even death's once cold sight for now despair
Shook my forlon thoughts with whirlwinds of pain;
To doom I gave dreams and fate was no threat.

Crimson time enthroned laments of my heart,
For in these ageing walls,grey and dusty
Mouldering limbs no more when I beheld art.
My chains,My soulmates, though old and rusty
Crowned me God and dished muse as daily bread.