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Final Notice Studios presents : C O S Y C A M P I N G - ( Act V ) In South Africa, camping was never just about tents and firewood, it was a ritual passed between generations. Grandparents gathered around crackling fires beneath the open Karoo sky, sharing stories while enamel kettles whistled in the distance. Parents carried that same spirit to coastal campsites and mountain terrains, teaching their children how to live slowly, listen to the wind, and find warmth in unfamiliar places. Today, a new generation turns camping into glamping - textured blankets, lantern light, curated meals, and fashion layered against the wilderness, yet the soul remains unchanged. Beneath every modern setup lives the memory of those who came before, proving that in South Africa, camping has always been about connection, survival, and finding home within nature. Palesa Makam @ginandjuicy_ arrived at Final Notice Studios Cost Camping just before sunset, carrying more uncertainty than luggage. The space felt unfamiliar, camping chairs placed beside sculptural fabrics, sleeping bags layered over textured rugs, lanterns glowing softly against industrial walls. It was neither wilderness nor home, but something suspended in between. For the first time in a long while, discomfort no longer felt threatening. The unusual space taught her softness, that comfort could exist in places never designed for it. Inside the surreal world of cosy camping, she discovered that home was not always a location, but a feeling created through warmth, memory, and the courage to settle into the unknown. Designer, Creative Director & Stylist : @shaq_styles Photographer : @justinmunitz Art Director : @sumayawic Props Master : @devanscreation Art Assistant : @mi__vallie Act V - Lead Model : @ginandjuicy_ Act V - Support Model : @iris_infocus_ Hair & Make Up : @creatiffatee Props by : @taybasprops & Mis_en_scene Thank you @saintmoonriver from Wonderland film studios #fashion #design #photography #studio

Final Notice Studios presents : C O S Y C A M P I N G - (Act IV) What once began as simple camping trips across South Africa - packed cars, shared blankets, boiling kettles, and nights beneath open skies, slowly transformed into glamping, where comfort meets nature with style and intention. Yet beneath the luxury remains the same feeling generations carried before us: creating warmth, softness, and home in temporary spaces under the stars. Iris @iris_infocus_ moved through the Final Notice cosy camping terrain like she was walking through a dream she almost remembered. The landscape felt surreal, endless open fields, wind moving through inflated structures, blankets hanging from the side of an old VW bus like soft sculptures against the sky. Nothing felt permanent, yet everything carried warmth. Wrapped in oversized layers and textured fabrics, Iris wandered slowly through the campsite, finding comfort in the unfamiliar. Her silhouette moved gently against the cold terrain while glossy garments reflected fragments of fading sunlight. The environment around her felt cinematic and strange, but she never appeared afraid of it. Instead, she softened into it. She sat quietly beside a lantern glowing against the evening air, wrapped blankets around her shoulders, and listened to the distant sounds of nature moving through the darkness. The campsite became less about survival and more about emotional shelter, a temporary world built from softness, memory, and stillness. In the Final Notice Studio universe, Iris transforms displacement into beauty. Finding warmth within surreal surroundings. Finding home within the feeling itself. Designer, Creative Director & Stylist : @shaq_styles Photographer : @justinmunitz Art Director : @sumayawic Props Master : @devanscreation Art Assistant : @mi__vallie Act IV - Lead Model : @iris_infocus_ Act IV - Supporting Model : @ginandjuicy_ Hair & Make Up : @creatiffatee Props by : @taybasprops & Mis_en_scene Thank you @saintmoonriver from Wonderland film studios. #fashion #design #photography #studio

Final Notice Studios presents : C O S Y C A M P I N G - (Act iii) Camping shaped the way we live by teaching generations how to create comfort from simplicity. Long before modern luxury, people learned how to build warmth in temporary spaces - cooking outdoors, sharing small spaces, living closely with nature, and turning almost nothing into home. It showed us that home was never only a structure, it was the people, the rituals, and the feeling created around us. Jordan Williams @jordie_sure arrived at the campsite dressed like colour against silence. His bright jacket moved through the cold South African wind like a signal flare, bold against muted earth tones and endless open land. The textured trousers carried dust along their seams, collecting pieces of the journey with every step he took around the unfamiliar landscape. Camping had never been about perfection. It was about adapting. Finding comfort inside unfamiliar surroundings. Jordan Williams made the temporary feel like home. Designer, Creative Director & Stylist : @shaq_styles Photographer : @justinmunitz Art Director: @sumayawic Props Master : @devanscreation Art Assistant : @mi__vallie Act iii - Lead Model : @jordie_sure Act iii - Supporting Models : @natebalie & @hidir_larry Hair & Make Up : @creatiffatee Props by : @taybasprops & Mis_en_scene Thanks to @saintmoonriver from Wonderland Studios. #fashion #design #editorial #photography camping

Final Notice Studios presents : C O S Y C A M P I N G - ( Act ii.) Camping shaped generations through memory, moment, and togetherness. Long before aesthetics, families built warmth in temporary spaces. Under open skies, beside fold out chairs, inside parked cars and tents filled with laughter. It taught generations how to create home wherever they arrived, turning nature into a living room and survival into softness. Hidir Larry @hidir_larry moves through the Final Notice Studio cosy camping world like a wandering memory wrapped in colour. Against empty landscapes, he becomes impossible to ignore - dressed in bold inflated silhouettes, deep cobalt blues. He navigates the colour world slowly, emotionally but never fully settled, yet completely present. While the landscape feels quiet and endless, Larry arrives with colour loud enough to create his own atmosphere. Designer, Creative Director & Stylist : @shaq_styles Photographer : @justinmunitz Art Director: @sumayawic Props Master : @devanscreation Art Assistant : @mi__vallie Act ii - Lead Model : @hidir_larry Act ii - Supporting Models : @jordie_sure & @natebalie Hair & Make Up : @creatiffatee Props by : @taybasprops & Mis_en_scene Thank you @saintmoonriver from wonderland film studios .

Final Notice Studios presents : C O S Y C A M P I N G - (Act 1) Camping in South Africa was never just about tents and open land. It was memory passed down through generations - families gathering beside fold out chairs, boiling kettles over small stoves, children sleeping under heavy blankets while the wind moved outside. For many people of colour, cosy camping became a language of togetherness, of making warmth in temporary spaces, of building comfort wherever the road ended. Final Notice Studio relives this heritage through an editorial landscape where fashion and displacement meet. A VW bus carries not only luggage, but memory itself. Every frame feels nostalgic yet surreal. Cosy camping becomes more than an activity. It becomes inheritance. A story of movement, softness, and finding beauty in temporary places. - Nathan Balie @natebalie never called it camping. To him, it felt more like waiting. Waiting for the next destination. Waiting for certainty. Waiting for the feeling of home to return. Cosy camping was never about escape for Nate. It was about softness during uncertainty. Designer, Creative Director & Stylist : @shaq_styles Photographer : @justinmunitz Art Director : @sumayawic Props Master : @devanscreation Art Assistant : @mi__vallie Hair & Make Up : @creatiffatee Act 1 Lead Model : @natebalie Act 1 Support Models : @jordie_sure & @hidir_larry Props by : @taybasprops & mis_en_scene Thanks to @saintmoonriver from Wonderland film studios. #fashion #photography #editorial #camping

Final Notice Studios presents : “Not just Anothwr Catch” At first light, Cape Town Wakes in fragments - full cries, rope against wood, the cold bite of Atlantic air. Along the edges of Hout Bay Harbour, hands move with precision, weathered and sure. Knives flash silver, cutting clean through the morning catch - sharp, deliberate, inherited. Fishing here is not gentle. It is exact. Each line cast carries generations. Each cut tells a story. The salt lives in everything - in the nets, in the skin, in the silence between men who don’t need to speak. There’s a rhythm to it: pull, slice l, rinse, repeat. Sharp work, honest work. This is heritage not framed on glass, but carried in muscle memory - where the edge of the hook meets the edge of the sea . Designer, Creative Director & stylist : @shaq_styles Model : Lesedi Art Director : @sumayawic Props Master : @devanscreation Hair & Make Up : @enriquefouriemakeupandhair Photographer: Thekiso Mokhele Lighting Assist : @davidian101 Props by : @propellerperiodprops Few sourced garments from : @onceagainatwendys #fashion #heritage #harbour #fishing #editorial

Final Notice Studios presents : -The Phone Booth- “Romance Edition” “Back in the day in South Africa, before WhatsApp calls and unlimited airtime, the public phone booth was part of every love story. Couples would save up coins all week just to make one call. You’d find people standing in long queues outside the booth at night, rehearsing what they wanted to say before their turn came. The moment the phone rang on the other side, everything else disappeared. Conversations were short because every second cost money, but somehow those few minutes meant everything. Long-distance relationships survived through crackling lines and rushed ‘I love yous.’ The phone booth wasn’t just a place to make calls — it was where apologies were made, relationships started, and hearts stayed connected across townships, cities, and provinces. A small glass box carrying some of South Africa’s biggest love stories.” ☎️❤️🇿🇦 Designer, Creative Director & Stylist : @shaq_styles Models : @natebalie & @surayar0sesantos Art Director : @sumayawic Props Master : @devanscreation Art Assist : @mi__vallie Photographer: Thekiso Mokhele Lighting Tech : @welcomephera Hair & Make Up : @enriquefouriemakeupandhair Props by : @taybasprops #fashion #stories #phonebooth #design #editorial

Final Notice Studios presents : “Not just Anothwr Catch” -Salt Memory At first light, Cape Town Wakes in fragments - full cries, rope against wood, the cold bite of Atlantic air. Along the edges of Hout Bay Harbour, hands move with precision, weathered and sure. Knives flash silver, cutting clean through the morning catch - sharp, deliberate, inherited. Fishing here is not gentle. It is exact. Each line cast carries generations. Each cut tells a story. The salt lives in everything - in the nets, in the skin, in the silence between men who don’t need to speak. There’s a rhythm to it: pull, slice l, rinse, repeat. Sharp work, honest work. This is heritage not framed on glass, but carried in muscle memory - where the edge of the hook meets the edge of the sea . Designer, Creative Director & stylist : @shaq_styles Model : @justblamejosh Art Director : @sumayawic Props Master : @devanscreation Hair & Make Up : @enriquefouriemakeupandhair Photographer: Thekiso Mokhele Lighting Assist : @davidian101 Props by : @propellerperiodprops #fashion #heritage #harbour #fishing #editorial

Final Notice Studios presents : The Red Theory.. The envelope arrives quietly, but the red is loud. It sits on the table like a warning light - thick letters stamped across the front: FINAL NOTICE. The color bleeds into the room, into the walls, into the back of your mind. Red isn’t just ink anymore. It’s pressure. It’s the slow tightening of time. Your stare at it longer than you should. The red feels heavy, like heat rising off pavement, like siren without sound. Every second stretches. Every thought turns the same shade. A final notice doesn’t shout. It simply waits in red. Knowing you’ll feel it before you even open it. Designer, Creative Director & stylist : @shaq_styles Model : @dajeano Art Director : @sumayawic Props Master : @devanscreation Art Assist : @mi__vallie Photographer : Thekiso Mokhele Lighting Tech : @welcomephera Hair & Make Up : @enriquefouriemakeupandhair Props by : @the_propfather #fashion #editorial #studio #design

Final Notice Studios presents : - The Phone Booth - In the 70s, 80s and 90s, the South African phone booth wasn’t just street furniture - it was infrastructure for survival. By the 90s, as the country stepped into democracy, the booth stood quietly on the pavement - unchanged, but witnessing everything. Inside that narrow frame, futures shifted. A job was secured. A mother was reassured. A relationship began. Another ended. Before blue ticks. Connection required REAL effort and because of that - it meant everything. Creative Director, Designer & stylist : @shaq_styles Muse : @surayar0sesantos Art Director : @sumayawic Props master : @devanscreation Art Assist : @mi__vallie Hair & make up : @enriquefouriemakeupandhair Photographer : Thekiso Mokhele Lighting Tech : @welcomephera Props from : @taybasprops #fashion #editorial #art #photography

Final Notice Studios presents : “District Six” isn’t just a place in Cape Town - it’s memory, rhythm, and resistance. Once a vibrant community of culture and colour, it was torn apart by the force of Apartheid, yet its spirit refuses to disappear. Today, every street holds echoes of laughter, music, and stories that were never meant to be erased . The textures of the set design for this shoot is dedicated to the interior landscape of District Six homes, where over 60 000 residents were forcibly removed and pushed to the edges of the city, the Cape Flats, due to the Apartheid Group Areas Act. The people of District Six demonstrated profound endurance against forced removals by the apartheid regime. Ps . Waited for model @natebalie availability for shoot , he was available the morning of shoot , we the creative team @shaq_styles & @sumayawic swinged a set in the bedroom quick . That was history ! Creative Director, Designer & stylist : @shaq_styles Muse : @natebalie Art Director : @sumayawic Props master : @devanscreation Props by : @the_propfather & mise_en_scene Photography: Thekiso Mokhele #fashiondesigner #editorial #art #setdesign #district6

Final Notice studios presents: The “Walkman” didn’t just play music in South Africa - it carried a generation through silence, resistance, and rhythm. In the late 70s and 80s, as the apartheid tightened its grip, the Walkman became a private escape - headphones on, the outside world muted, inner worlds amplified. Imported, shared, sometimes smuggled - the Walkman moved between hands in townships and cities, soundtracking everything from taxi rides to long walks home. It shifted how South Africa experienced music: no longer communal only, but deeply personal - your tape, your story , your moment. By the 90s, as democracy dawned, the Walkman scored a new freedom - kwaito beats, house rhythms, and global sounds bleeding into a new identity. Before streaming, before smartphones - there was rewind, fast-forward l, and the click of play. Creative Director & stylist : @shaq_styles Muse : @natebalie Photographer : @thekiso_mokhele Lighting tech : @welcomephera Art Director : @sumayawic Props master : @devanscreation Art assist : @mi__vallie Hair & make up : @enriquefouriemakeupandhair Props by : @taybasprops & @the_propfather #fashion #art #photography #editorial