"Photo exhibit highlights dangerous South African train-surfing sport" by Hollie Watson for the Westmount Examiner / Wednesday, October 16th 2008.
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"The Quick and the Dead" by Sisi Chen for Midnight Poutine / Friday, October 17th 2008.
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"Photo of the Day - Running" by Risa Dickens for Indyish / Date unknown.
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Installation History
2008 - Ran from Thursday, October 16th to Tuesday, October 21st at the Emporium Gallery in Montreal, Canada / www.theemporiumgallery.com

About Sanza-Hanza
Jamie-James Medina and Matthew Salacuse are New York City-based photographers. Taking its name from a Zulu-dialect term for King Surfer, Sanza-Hanza is a collection of photographs that Medina and Salacuse took of train surfers in Soweto, South Africa. Human and beautiful, Sanza-Hanza will surely be a thought provoking exhibition.

Artist Statement
"Soweto is South Africa's largest ghetto, a sprawling stretch of townships on the outskirts of Johannesburg. With an estimated population of one million, this former centre of the anti-apartheid struggle faces chronic problems of poverty and overcrowding, and remains a notoriously dangerous place to live. It is here where you’ll find Train-Surfing, the semi-suicidal act of climbing outside, on top and under the city's public trains while in full-flight. Born in the early Nineties out of a restless desire to embrace life (and death) after years of oppression, Train-Surfing has evolved into something of an underground sport, not unlike skateboarding in the 1970’s. Sanza-Hanza follows V.I.R.U.S. (Very Intelligent Riders Usually Survive), a gang of young Surfers searching for the ultimate ride or ‘play’, as they call it, testing their already weak embrace on mortality. "

About Jamie-James Medina
Jamie-James Medina is a 26-year old London-born, Bangladesh-bred, New York-based photographer.  He has shot features and cover-stories for every major UK-broadsheet. He supports the Arsenal Football Club, the Miami Dolphins, the Pittsburgh Pirates and, for the sake of argument, the Ottawa Senators. Website

About Matthew Salacuse
Matthew Salacuse is a native New Yorker who has been shooting for 9 years- for magazines such as XXL, Spin, Blender and Maxim. He holds the record for shooting 6 covers of the Canadian hip hop magazine, Pound. He has had solo gallery shows at New York's Wall Space gallery and the Jack Spade store. He also participated in a group show at the Museum of Sex. Salacuse, firm but fair, is proud to be showing his work in Canada for the first time. Website

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