Elephant Magazine
Cape Town
Elephant Magazine is a quarterly publication focusing on art and visual culture. The magazine’s ultimate aim is to cover and uncover new talent and trends across all creative disciplines and to boldly showcase the daring, the beautiful and the different. Marc Valli, the Editor-in-Chief of Elephant, is a long-standing dear friend of Pocko, and so it was our privilege to work on this a very special collaboration with them in 2013 – Destination Cape Town. Destination Cape Town is a collage of art, short stories and conversations that aim to capture the energy of Cape Town. This is a place that combines intense beauty with flashes of horror amid a vibrant, creative community. After this feature on Cape Town was first discussed, Nicola Schwartz’s reflex was to call Stacy Hardy (who is, in his words, a writer, editor, and general cultural mover’) and start a conversation with her.
After this initial discussion, they came up with about a dozen different ways of putting together this unique feature – which says something about the multi-layered, multicultural complexity of this very special location. Pocko and Elephant collaborated with a pool of highly talented contributors, writers, and artists, including Lindokuhle Nkosih, Luke Daniel, Athi-Patra Ruga, Stacy Hardy, Toast Coetzer, Ntone Edjabe, Stephen Lamb, Pieter Hugo, Montole Moorosi, Bradley Abrahams, Michael Stevenson, Julia Rosa Clark, Dan Halter and Porky Hefer. We thank them for their contributions to this very special feature.
