Veteran photographer Mike Mzileni ‘shaped careers and impacted people’s lives’
Bra Mike, as he was fondly remembered, was a remarkable storyteller and a strict disciplinarian with a roaring sense of humour.
Mzileni worked for various publications during his prolific career, including The World, the Sunday Express, the Rand Daily Mail and The Sunday Times before joining joined City Press at its launch in 1982. He headed its photographic desk until his retirement in 2000Veteran photojournalists Dan Tleketle, Len Khumalo, Robert Magwaza, Sol Rachilo and Connie Molusi as well as many other photographers and politicians who had worked alongside Mzileni, we in attendance.
Tleketle called Mzileni his “twin brother”, saying they were inseparable since 1962 while Mzileni worked for a shoe company.I gave him the address, 1 New York Street, School of Photography. We did not have prestigious schools and from that time, he became the ‘twin brother’ I never had. He was 80 years old and so am I.
“He wanted to see himself in me, in his younger day. My style of work is influenced by him. He was strict as hell.”
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