Arnold Petersen

Arnold Petersen is a Cape Town–born author and photographer with an intimate, first-hand knowledge of his city. Before turning to writing and photography, he spent more than eighteen years building artificial intelligence systems used around the world — work that trained him to cut through noise and find what genuinely matters, an instinct he now brings to sorting the truly worthwhile from the merely popular. Majestic Cape Town is his guide to the destinations that define the city, written not as a visitor passing through but as someone who has lived, walked, and photographed these places across a lifetime. He is also the author of Edge of the Continent: The Western Cape, a decade-long photographic chronicle of the region, along with other titles available worldwide.