The Portfolio: Lewis Holiday
Photographer Lewis Holiday’s late-’90s image of DOOM captures the hip-hop artist’s early experiments with concealment
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The Portfolio: Thato Monare
For photographer Thato Monare, documenting the rural Eastern Cape is a personal favourite
The Portfolio: Sabelo Mkhabela
Sabelo Mkhabela, a ‘writer who can take photos’ tells us about the image he took of American rapper Joey Bada$$ at Oppikoppi in 2017
The Portfolio: Antony Kaminju
Antony Kaminju shares his experience of making a photo of the Roving Bantu Kitchen’s Sifiso Ntuli
Extract from ‘The Journey: New Positions in African Photography’ — an introduction
A new book examines the great flourishing of photography across the African continent
Extract from ‘The Journey’: Responses to the archive
This sequence of texts was written in response to various photographs of Nigeria made between 1920 and 1929 that form part of the Colonial Office photographic collection
The Portfolio: Mário Macilau
Mozambican photographer Mário Macilau uses performance and play to expand the meaning of his work
Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’
As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
The Portfolio: Saaiqa
Photographer Saaiqa shares the story of how she captured this picture that reflects both the socioeconomic realities of our country and simple companionship
The Portfolio: George Tatakis
The Greek photographer is on a quest to document traditional costumes around the country
Kamogelo Lebotse: The Portfolio
Photographer Kamogelo Lebotse has been documenting the effects of the national lockdown on the people of Mahikeng
Reframing women in Namibia’s early history of photography
Women photographers, and black African women photographers in particular, are largely absent from early histories of the medium. This is slowly changing
The Portfolio: Jamal Nxedlana
The national lockdown provided photographer Jamal Nxedlana with a chance to push the boundaries of his practice as he transitioned into a new creative cycle
Phumlani Pikoli and the art of quitting school to make it
Writer, skater and filmmaker Phumlani Pikoli says his artistic intention was ‘to play’
‘He ain’t heavy, he’s a policeman and he’s paying . . .’
The story behind Ugandan photojournalist Nicholas Bamulanzeki’s iconic picture of the policeman in the floods
Omar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary
Saho’s Omar Badsha believes in the power of people telling their own stories, but more funding to support this practice is crucial
The Portfolio: Khaya Ngwenya
Photojournalist Khaya Ngwenya’s style focus on exploiting natural light while staying in motion
The Portfolio: Lizzie ZiqubuM
Photographer Lizzie ZiqubuM’s Senior Citizens exhibition, on show at the KZNSA Gallery is a celebration and appreciation of the role of grandmothers
Obituary: The pointillist detail and zen brush strokes of Jürgen Schadeberg
‘Drum’ photographer Jürgen Schadenberg, who died on Sunday, displayed a profound humanism, writes his friend and sometime collaborator Hazel Friedman
The Portfolio: Levy Pooe
Artist Levy Pooe conceptualises his work as ‘a social diary of being black in the city’
Review: ‘Ikhaya Likamoya’ by Sethembiso Zulu — Ties that bind us all
Multimedia journalist and healer Sethembiso Zulu’s debut solo show embraces a fierce, raw and broken timelessness that encapsulates what it means to be human
Extractive histories and a waste-laden present: On Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning
Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning interrogates the links between colonialism, extractive practices and environmental catastrophes in Urban Africa
George Hallett: Nomad, raconteur and photographer who ‘became the camera’
The renowned South African photographer understood how to look for the tucked-away spaces that were the sources of both light and dark
The Portfolio: Puleng Mongale
The artist is drawn to collage because it allows her to be as complex and layered as she wants to be
Why we need a South African jazz photography archive
We need more books about South African jazz, focusing on both the verbal and the visual, to fully capture and appreciate the unique ‘river of culture we’ve been bequeathed’
The Portfolio: ByLwansta
Hip-hop artist ByLwansta adopts a multidisciplinary approach to story-telling by making use of visual cues to reinforce the ideas that he puts forward sonically
The Portfolio: Tsepo Gumbi
With the Sharpeville massacre in mind, Kwanele Sosibo takes a look at how Tsepo Gumbi’s collection of photographs are a necessary intervention
Sixosh’ abathakathi: Ukuthwebula and the photographic image
Reimagining image making through concepts found in isiZulu
Taking the battle to the grave: South Africa’s contested sites
In his swansong, Santu Mofokeng ruminates on mortality, ancestry and dispossession
The Portfolio
“The photographs in the series act as a symbol of, or a witness to, the economic imbalance that exists in contemporary South Africa, where people increasingly inhabit contrasting economic realities.”
Broken land brooding skies
Photographer Daylin Paul, inspired by a former colleague, brings into view coal’s devastation in Mpumalanga
The Portfolio: Niamh Walsh-Vorster
"Even though this series was about being in a familiar space, it could be seen that I would intentionally place myself on the periphery"
