In 2013, Casino bought a plane ticket to South Africa because he wanted to document train surfing, a dangerous sport he’d learned of on the Internet. His interactions with the train surfers quickly brought him into the townships and catalyzed his continued interest in exploring the social and economic complexities of life there, specifically in Katlehong, the second largest township after Soweto. Casino always stays in Katlehong when he’s working, so naturally he’s needed to buy a thing or two. He’s become well acquainted with spazas, also called tuck-shops. And in the fall of 2014, he began documenting them.

“Aesthetically, my choice was to make something really clean and straight. Usually [spazas] are really active. There is always