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Spoor
By Roger Palmer, GOST, £40, 208 pages, hardback, ISBN 978-1-9104-1-29-3
BETWEEN 2014 and 2018, Roger Palmer commenced on an epic road trip across South Africa; he visited around 500 placesimages follow the mostly defunct rail routes in the country. The term ‘spoor' refers to the track or scent of an animal or person, but in Afrikaans it also refers to rail tracks. There are unusual maps at the beginning of each series. They are blank and yet the place names (some current, some pre-Apartheid) are in their correct place. It's as if these locations have slipped out of time into a place where the ghosts of South Africa's history collide with its present. is unusual and haunting, but it confronts and updates South Africa's history.
