How one man given days to live has transformed the diagnosis into a mantra for a life lived fully.
Photography Rand Leeb-du Toit
Words Helen Anderson
SHOT from 1500 feet, ocean and land and the liminal spaces between are beautiful abstractions. For Rand Leeb-du Toit, these images transcend beauty. For him the act of creation is deeply spiritual. “If you consider the fact that I spent 12 months in hospital, being up there in the sky is a completely untethered perspective,” he says. “It represents freedom to me, gratitude, clarity, the gift of life.”
There’s also the paradoxical sense when he’s shooting from the open door of a helicopter or light plane of “feeling tethered to the Earth in a more profound way”, a sense of the “interconnectedness between us and the beauty of the planet.”
