About us
GeoParallax is a South African geo-media house creating travel films, destination guides, books and photography, in the belief that every place is owed the truth about itself. Nothing here is borrowed and nothing is imagined: every film, every photograph and every guide was made on location, in person.
1998
The year of the first Hasselblad.
6
Destinations, each filmed over a year or more.
338
Pages in Edge of the Continent - 319 of them photographs.
0
Sponsored trips, free stays or paid placements since 1998.
Every fee on these pages was paid at the gate, every road driven in person, every season waited for. A place gets a year of our time before it gets a word of ours. That is slow work, and it has one purpose — so that what you plan from these pages holds up when you arrive.
How did GeoParallax start?
With a camera. The Hasselblad arrived in 1998 and was pointed at home town — the coastline, the passes, the towns I live among — photographed through every season, year after year, because I was there for all of them. International agencies began licensing the work in 2004. The films followed under the name Distinct Travel, then the guides, then a book. In 2026, nearly three decades after that first frame, all of it came under one roof: GeoParallax.
Formerly Distinct Travel.
Made on location, in person
Every shoot starts months in advance. The location is planned, then scouted on foot — finding the exact point the frame needs, then hiking or climbing to reach it at the right hour, and waiting there to freeze the moment. Then the season changes, and it all happens again. Shot by shot, a place begins to show its true beauty — not one good afternoon, but the whole of it. That is what made on location, in person means. The guides are written from those same trips.
- Planned months in advance
- Scouted on foot, to the exact point
- Shot season after season
- Guides written from the same trips
One place, seen four ways
Every destination here takes four forms. The film comes first. The guide follows, written from the same trips. When a region has given enough, it becomes a book. And the photographs travel on their own — licensed through Shutterstock, Adobe Stock and iStock, with fine-art prints to follow.
Western Cape & Eastern Cape, South Africa21 minGarden Route Travel Guide & Hidden Gems
Every town from Mossel Bay to Storms River — verified fees, drive times, and the hidden gems from our film.
GeoParallaxFilmed & written on location
Landscape hardcover, threadsewn338 pagesEdge of the Continent: The Western Cape
A visual chronicle of the most diverse region of South Africa.
Arnold PetersenPhotographed & written on location
Upcoming DocumentaryCape Winelands: Three Centuries of Wine
In production.
GeoParallaxFilmed & written on location
Independent since 1998
Every trip behind this site is paid for by the business — the travel, the stays, the entrance fees. No tourism board has hosted us, no brand has placed a product, no link here earns a commission. It is the expensive way to work, and the only one that leaves every opinion entirely ours.
The editor's desk
Nothing here is published on memory alone. Every guide and every film narration crosses the desk of Dr Ian Kennedy — retired from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he earned his PhD, and the author of How to do Research: Today's Tips and Tools — who questions the numbers, checks the sources and edits the final word. That is why every fee table carries the date it was checked, and every figure its source.
Why "Parallax"?
Depth is what you get from looking twice. Parallax is the shift between two vantage points, and it is the whole idea of this work: the same place seen as a local and as a traveller, in summer and in winter, on film and on the printed page. The depth is in the difference.
Get in touch.
Whether it's about the books, the films, the guides, or licensing an image — every message lands in my inbox, and I answer it myself.