Tertius Meintjes Photo exhibition

This photographic project is an exploration and the celebration of the breaking down of boundaries and the positive dynamic this creates. UNITED PEOPLE is a humble attempt at reflecting the beauty in diversity and the perfect potential in all of us. Hopefully making a small contribution to encourage understanding and tolerance. This project attempts to reflect the perfect beauty in all, compassion through honouring each other in the knowledge that our destiny is one and he same

He went back to Berlin, and thus started a journey through Germany and most parts of Europe during 2003/2004 and part of 2005. Tertius travelled to other parts of the world during this period but regularly returned to Germany to continue his work on the project.

ACTOR & WRITER
Tertius has 25 years experience in theatre, film and television.
He studied BA Drama and Literature at the University of Pretoria and started working professionally in his second year.

His theatrical highlights include Alan Strang in Equus for which he won a VITA Award for Best New-Comer and Dis Seker Die Honde which he wrote, directed and produced for the Grahmstown Festival. This production played to critical acclaim in Johannesburg.
Tertius won a VITA Award for Best Actor in Jobman, a feature film directed by Oscar Nominated director Darryll James Roodt and Best Supporting Actor for his role opposite Whoopi Goldberg in Serafina, also directed by Darryll James Roodt.
Other highlights in his career include playing opposite Martin Sheen in the Floating Outfit, opposite Kerry Fox in Friends and opposite Sydney Poitier and Michael Caine in Madela and De Klerk.
Tertius won the Best Script Award for M-NET’s New Directions (The Pink Leather Chair)

PHOTOGRAPHER
Because time is out there, eaten by light.
-Norma Cole, “Spinoza in her Youth”
After three years in a leading role in “Isidingo” (The number one daily drama in South Africa) and becoming a popular household name, Tertius decided it was time for a major change. Seeking a new challenge he returned to his first passion.
A man’s work is little more than a journey through his life, in order to rediscover (through the detours of art), those two or three great but simple images that first found access to his heart.
-Albert Camus

Photography and the nature of light was something that fascinated him from an early age. Growing up on a farm in a remote part of South Africa Tertius got his hands on a faded Basic Photography manual and a primitive box camera while rummaging through a pile of rubbish that his father was about to burn. He build his first primitive darkroom at the age of twelve and continued to explore the intriguing relationship between time and light, seeking to capture that single ‘magical moment’ as reflected by the human condition, ever since.