One to Watch Vuyo Mabheka plays with illustration, cut-outs and collage to depict the motion and difficulty of life in the zones
Tag: South Africa
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”
In 2007, Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse began a six-year project about the infamous Johannesburg skyscraper. Now, a new addition to the work focuses on its dystopian core — an almost 200-metre long abyss running up its centre
When a Mexican curator invited Pieter Hugo over to make new work, “His only brief to me,” says the photographer, “was that it be about sex and mortality”. So began a two-year inquiry into the country’s complex relationship with life, death and the afterlife
In the first of a new series focusing on work made in isolation, the South African photographer discusses her collaborative approach to portraiture