Photography

A story of same sex love // Motswana Creative Director and Writer Tanlume Enyatseng debuts Editorial shoot and short film ‘THEY SHOOT BOYS DONT THEY?’ 

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A story of same sex love // Motswana Creative Director and Writer Tanlume Enyatseng debuts Editorial shoot and short film ‘THEY SHOOT BOYS DONT THEY?’ 

Intimacy locked in. A moment; an expression of being – an archive of lived experience. An embrace of pure physical; spiritual emotion. Lingering intimacy. A rich kiss shared between two young men. A candid tale of queer love captured on the emulsion of a film roll recorded with the material’s light-sensitive silver halide crystals. Same sex tenderness…

Photographer Kader Diaby’s sensitivity towards ephemera

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Photographer Kader Diaby’s sensitivity towards ephemera

A sullen look towards the camera, a veiled head….body painted in vertical lines along the edges…underexposure, a small fading —Kader Diaby’s series of photographs; Miria, iyé i yèrè gniniga evoke a deep gentle sadness. The Japanese have a term for this feeling; mono no aware —a transient sadness and a sensitivity towards ephemera. Miria, iyé…

Dahlia Maubane: Woza sisi, woza nice!

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Dahlia Maubane: Woza sisi, woza nice!

Woza Sisi is an exhibition that explores the ways in which women hairstylists working in Joburg CBD and Maputo manoeuvring through their days, as well as their strategic use of urban spaces. I caught up with photographer Dahlia Maubane to find out more about the project.   What exactly inspired the ‘Woza Sisi’ project? I…

Mimi Cherono Ng’ok // a longing for home

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Mimi Cherono Ng’ok // a longing for home

Kenyan artist Mimi Cherono Ng’ok creates images containing grainy nostalgia. Presented to the viewer like fragments of a dream or memory, they draw you back to your own past, poking at your own glimpses of people and places that remind you of home. Describing her practice as a kind of “emotional cartography”, her work carefully balances…

Kadara Enyeasi – playing with moods, emotions and perspective

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Kadara Enyeasi – playing with moods, emotions and perspective

With a background in architecture, and a general interest in art and design since his younger years, Kadara Enyeasi moved towards a photography practice that includes portraiture, art and fashion. This self-taught photographer plays with structure and perspective, often making the urban environment a key component in how he positions those who appear in his…

Prince Gyasi – instilling hope through imagery

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Prince Gyasi – instilling hope through imagery

Ghanaian photographer Prince Gyasi likes to describe himself as an artistic vessel who uses imagery to express how he feels, and to share what he cares about. Primarily producing portraits and documentary photography, his work creates a collage of his city and the people who live in it. Playing with colour, shadow and composition, he…

Sabelo Mlangeni’s ‘Umlindelo wamaKholwa’ // exploring faith and friendship

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Sabelo Mlangeni’s ‘Umlindelo wamaKholwa’ // exploring faith and friendship

The exhibition Umlindelo wamaKholwa features the work of multiple prize-winning and internationally exhibited Johannesburg-based photographer Sabelo Mlangeni. The exhibition is a collaboration between Mlangeni and Dr Joel Cabrita, a historian based at the University of Cambridge, and is accompanied by a 128 page catalogue. Having shown at Cambridge, the exhibition is at WAM, curated by…