Questions around surveillance and control circle around the photography at FORMAT Festival, now on show in Derby
Tag: South Africa
A rich family history of political struggle and personal responsibility, diverging paths and roads left untrod inform Thero Makepe’s We Didn’t Choose to be Born Here
A building glows crimson. There is little to indicate where we are. No signage. No people. The image has a timeless quality. Peaceful, like some half-remembered dream drifting through the mind.
One to Watch Vuyo Mabheka plays with illustration, cut-outs and collage to depict the motion and difficulty of life in the zones
The Right to Play: Lee-Ann Olwage’s collaboration with a girl’s school in Kenya exudes pride and joy
In Kenya, over 80 percent of Maasai girls are taken out of school at 12…
29 June 2022
We revisit an interview with the visual activist ahead of their first major survey in Germany opening at Gropius Bau
On the final weekend of the photographer’s first survey exhibition, Ractliffe reflects on her approach to photographing South Africa during apartheid’s later years
Testimony, at Goodman Gallery, London, reflects on the violence and oppression of apartheid and complicates…
17 March 2021
After 12 years of considering the country’s history, representation, and landscape, Orrantia reveals his first body of work made from his adopted home in South Africa: “I decided that what I could say about this place was to do with my own relationship to it”
“We look at the statistics and the hospitals, focusing on the people who have contracted the illness, and we forget about how the situation impacts the community”