Photo by Dillon Marsh Patrick Bongoy was born in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. He currently lives and works in Cape Town. Bongoy’s work speaks in response to the global reality of literal and figurative environmental pollution. This encompasses the entire spectrum from the erosion of economic viability for people, sociocultural decay impacting on community and individual behaviour and natural rural and urban landscape. He draws on the history of his roots in the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as the irony of contemporary urban degradation masked as development.