About

Some things begin without a plan.

This one began with walks.

Through the streets of Accra, the coffee shops of Virginia, the parks and pavements of Nottingham. Walks where words would arrive uninvited, and where a camera became the only honest way to say what words sometimes couldn’t.

My name is Augustine. I was born in Ghana, made some of my life in America, and currently find myself exploring the UK, one city walk at a time.

I write poems and take photographs. Mostly of streets and skies and parks. The kind of shots you get when you slow down enough to notice what is actually there. A pigeon on a wet pavement. Light through leaves. A stranger walking away. Birds, always birds.

The August Dispatch is where I send these things out into the world.

The poems are about ordinary moments made strange by attention. Love, movement, light, the feeling of being between places. The photographs are the same. Quiet things. The kind you almost walk past.

The wearable pieces came naturally. If a line from a poem could sit on a shirt and find someone who needed it that day, that felt like enough of a reason to make it. A lot of the designs have birds in them. That is not an accident.

This is not a big brand with a big team. It is one person, a notebook, a camera, and a slow ongoing conversation with the world.

If something here speaks to you, it was probably made with someone like you in mind.

Welcome.