Art Photography Gallery

Fumi Hirai is a Japanese artist, entirely inspired by the African bush, who strives to capture beauty, simplicity, and delicate details in her nature photographs of animals. Fumi was born and raised in Japan. From a young age, her mother, a calligraphy teacher, exposed her to exhibitions and galleries, which influenced Fumi’s love of photography. Going on safari in Africa was a dream she had since childhood. While a student in her twenties, she went to Southern Africa with her first SLR camera. Since then, she has used every opportunity to return to Africa to capture its wildlife in pictures. In Tokyo, Hirai spent many hours in the darkroom developing photos, mainly street photography and travel photos from Africa and South East Asia. Her wildlife prints have received recognition in Japan, and now after moving to Cape Town, her passion for photography expanded from wildlife to include landscape and seascape photography. Proceeds of sales in this collection will be donated by the artist to the Love4Lee fund.

Hougaard Malan is well known in local and international fine-art landscape circles for his uncompromising attention to the technical considerations of his craft. Combined with an instinctively creative eye, he is considered by many to be South Africa’sleading landscape, fine-art photographer. READ MORE >> 

Ramzi Mansour was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1973 of Lebanese and Hungarian descent. After graduating from University in Canada, he built up successful businesses in Nigeria in power generation, investment and venture capitalism. In his late forties, he focused on philanthropy, supporting charitable causes and exploring the creative arts.

He moved to Cape Town in 2017, and it was here that he picked up a camera for the first time. Photographs he took of a friend’s son ended up on the desk of a modelling agency, and with this, his new career as a photographer took off. Since then, he has become known for his black-and-white portraiture of women and has been published in many magazines, both print and online. Mansour and his wife produced a coffee table book called “Resilience” which tells the stories of 42 South African women and their journeys with cancer. The book was exhibited in the UAE in partnership with Leica Dubai, with the digital version having now been downloaded over 300 000 times. “Resilience” was donated to medical organisations in six countries worldwide, and the download was made available at no charge. Mansour was named a Leica Ambassador in 2021.

Mansour’s focus on philanthropy allows his photography to remain self-funded. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa, with his wife, Nicole, and two children.