Roy Potterill — eye-in-wrench markRoy Potterill

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Mindset Movement

Mindset Movement. An outdoor community that treats hard mornings as the point.

Role
Photographer
Client
Mindset Movement
Location
Cape Town, South Africa # verify
Year
2021
Mindset Movement — cover

Mindset Movement is built around doing difficult physical things, together, usually outdoors and usually early. True Grit was one chapter of it. I have shot them more than once, which is why this pulls two days into one story.

Community work is different from event work. There is no single hero moment to wait for, so you shoot the texture instead. The group before the light comes up. The effort on individual faces. The small unglamorous rituals that hold a thing like this together.

[ROY: what is Mindset Movement exactly, a run club, a fitness collective, an event series? And who runs it? I want to name it correctly rather than guess.]