Arnold Manda

About me

Industry Biotech
Occupation Biomedical Technologist, Cytogenetics
Location uMhlanga, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Introduction I'm a Cytogenetics Technologist and independent photographer based in Johannesburg and uMhlanga, South Africa.
Interests art, art photography, acoustic guitar, contemporary photography, lomography, conflict photography, photojournalism, sensitometry, cytogenetics, cancer genetics, haematology, next generation sequencing, microarrays, multiplex ligand dependant probe amplification, modern art, cinema, early to mid-century cinema, bullet chess, high fidelity music & equipment, electronic music, jazz, comedy and humour, speed-cubing, hiking, type design, mechanical keyboards, computers
Favorite Movies Blow-Up, Annie Hall, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Bang Bang Club, Vertigo, M, Casablanca, Eraserhead, Gone with the Wind, Under Fire, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Ex Machina, Dune (1984), La La Land, Midway, Her, Goodfellas, The Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, Vertigo, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 12 Monkeys, Blade Runner, I'm Thinking Of Ending Things, Rear Window, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Matrix, Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, Seven, The Big Lebowski, Citizen Kane, Star Wars: Episode III, Faust (1926), Nosferatu, Viridiana, The Golden Age, An Andalusian Dog, The Exterminating Angel, The Irishman, Carlito's Way
Favorite Music Adrianne Lenker, Aldous Harding, Angel Olsen, Arca, Autechre, The Beatles, Big Thief, Boards of Canada, Bon Iver, Boygenius, Burial, Clark, David Bowie, DIIV, Evening Hymns, Everything But the Girl, Father John Misty, FKA Twigs, Flume, Fleet Foxes, Fleetwood Mac, Flying Lotus, Fog Lake, Forth Wanderers, Gayngs, Glasser, Grimes, Hiatus Kaiyote, Horse Feathers, Hovvdy, How to Dress well, John Coltrane, John Lennon, Julia Holter, Julia Robert, Julie Byrne, Keaten Henson, Laura Marling, Little Dragon, Liza Anne, Local Natives, Miles Davis, Mourn, My Brightest Diamond, Paul Chambers, Prefuse 73, Priests, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Remember Sports, S. Carey, Sales, Skullcrusher, Soccer Mommy, Songs: Ohia, Tanukichan, The Careful Ones, The Smiths, TOPS, Triosk, Vijay Iyer, Volcano Choir, Björk, Charles Mingus, Cocorosie, Esperanza Spalding, Joanna Newsom, Aphex Twin, Paganini, Brahms, Chopin, Girlpool
Favorite Books Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw, The Misanthrope and other plays by Molière, The Oedipus cycle by Sophocles

You've been entered in a shadow puppet contest. What's your best pose?

A wolf (?)