Captured moments

Mlamuli Mkhonta, commonly known as Smash of Mysterious Photography is a young liSwati man who is passion driven, born and raised in the streets of Corporation, Mbabane. He attended his primary education at Ka Boyce Primary School, his secondary education at John Wesley, before going to Ka Boyce High School where he completed. Smash was doing his degree in Architecture at The University of Limkokwing when he dropped out on his second year to pursue photography. 

He likes to think of himself to be an ambitious young man who thrives on challenges and always looks for opportunities to do better and achieve greatness. Smash is the head photographer of Mega Sound Events, the ambassador of Skyworld Travel Tours and he works with the likes of Her Royal Highness Princess Sikhanyiso. 

Smash talks to me about him and photography and he starts the conversation by saying he believes that a photograph is a none motion, still piece of art that freezes time, emotions, actions and situations forever. He got to do photography with the idea that time might pass but the moment should forever stay with us. These moments mark down history, and the most prestige events of all time.

Light is like a heart or a lifeblood to photography, without light there's no living in general. So photography captures that light moment and he fell in love with photography because it took him to places that he has never been to before by just sitting at home, reading.

Mlamuli says it's the best feeling ever to be one of the best and recognized photographers in the Kingdom because the love that people show is what drives him to produce more quality in what he does. If it wasn't for the positive feedback he gets, he would probably be doing what he studied  😅🤷🏽‍♂️.

Covid-19

Smash shares his insights on the Covid-19 pandemic and he says that it's a catastrophic time to be living in. As a Kingdom it has crippled us to the core. When you think of the jobs lost, retrenchments that took place, a lot of emaSwati are going through the worst times in history. 

He says that he thinks the lock down will help, because if we weren't on lock down the virus would have easily and quickly passed on and Eswatini would be history.

He moreover states that the lock down is bad for him. Not being able to work, no fun times, is just disastrous for him. All he gets to do is read and boost his knowledge for when this is all over, we taking this to another level.

He strongly urges people to stay safe, wash their hands, do the things you never got to do. Most importantly bond more with your families and stick together as one.