Edinburgh native Robby Ogilvie was visiting South Africa when he took this image. \u201cI\u2019d\u00a0spent the first week in and around Kruger national park, photographing the culture, landscapes and wildlife, before moving on to Cape Town.\u201d<\/p>\n
Along with a friend from South Africa, Ogilvie visited the neighbourhood of Bo-Kaap. \u201cThe area is known for its brightly coloured houses, but it also carries a rich and complex history. There was a real feeling of community, and many of the houses felt like open studios; artists had taken over spaces to exhibit and sell their\u00a0work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ogilvie didn\u2019t know it at the time, but the Ford Cortina in the shot is a familiar feature of the area, and is known affectionately as Cortie. \u201cAs soon as I saw it, I\u00a0knew the image. I could see how it would sit within the frame and how the colours, the road and the deep uninterrupted blue of the sky, would hold the composition,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
The shotis the winner of the Object category in the Sony world photography awards 2026.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, the pair headed to the V&A Waterfront area of Cape Town, which Ogilvie describes as \u201cvery different \u2013 modern and upscale\u201d. \u201cAlready I could get a sense of division within the city,\u201d he adds. It\u2019s\u00a0a\u00a0theme reflected in\u00a0his choice of title. \u201cIn\u00a0a country shaped by visible and invisible lines, it is difficult to ignore how space can both connect and\u00a0separate.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sony World Photography awards 2026<\/a> exhibition is at Somerset House<\/a>, London, 17 April-4 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edinburgh native Robby Ogilvie was visiting South Africa when he took this image. \u201cI\u2019d\u00a0spent the first week in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-535963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}