Your childhood myth tormentor Pinky Pinky comes to life in this conceptual imagery series [Photos]

For most of us childhood was a time of discovery, learning about the world we have been briefly introduced to. It was a time where were filled with a sense of inquisitiveness and great hunger for adventure.

During this time we believed in things that were not real and of course at the time they made perfect sense.

We all have our own fables that we unreservedly believed and many of us remember a time when we would rather let our bladders suffer the river flows of urine than go to the school toilets where Pinky Pinky would have her way with us if we dared enter the toilets alone.

Pinky Pinky is a scary creature who targets girls, particularly those dressed in pink underwear, just to torment them.

She haunted us beyond the walls of school premises and I am of the view that some primary students of the current generation are experiencing the same fear we did.

“Why is this ghost only meant for girls?” Johannesburg-based Photographer Lutendo Malatji asked himself that question having grown up with three sisters who feared Pinky Pinky.

He went on a journey to unearth the real truth behind the popular myth and decided to recreate it through conceptual imagery.

During his research, his late grandmother told him there was a time when girls went missing, rumours were that they went missing when they went to the toilets and so the myth was born.

“The myth was created to scare girls out of the streets.”

This entire project was in collaboration with a fellow photographer Thapelo Motsumi who not only helped with conceptualisation but is the brains behind the art direction and Livhuwani Masindi Muthubi as a model.

Marvel at the horrifying yet intriguing emergence of Pinky Pinky in these images that were shot at Diepkloof Adult Education Center and Training, in Diepkloof, Soweto.