A very much younger Marq de Villiers with grandfather Johannes Jacobus de Villiers in Bloemfontein, South Africa, 1943. JJ de Villiers ran away from school at the age of 16 to fight the British in the Boer War, but was found by his uncles and packed off back to school.
With grandfather and sister, surveying the state of the world’s water, 1944.
A rather younger Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle at Moscow’s Tretiakov Gallery, with Alla Gankina, 1971.
Filming in Xian, China, 2002. Interview with an eminent hydrologist, with the attentive presence of state security.
Portrait of Marq de Villiers by Paul Orenstein. Taken while editor of Toronto Life magazine, 1987
As the lone non-fiction panelist at the Frye festival, flanked by novelists Perrine Leblanc and Kim Thúy, 2013.
On assignment filming in the Namib desert, 2002. The resulting three-hour documentary (WATER WATER) won several awards.
Filming on the Great Wall, 2002
A more or less grown-up Marq de Villiers during a teaching gig at Ryerson in Toronto, 1974.
Days of jockdom: London University hockey team, 1961
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