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Rebuild: South African photographer David Goldblatt’s exhibition Fragments of Fietas on at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg honours the resilience of a community fractured and displaced by apartheid.
APARTHEID

Fietas and the enduring question of home

David Goldblatt’s Fragments of Fietas captures more than loss — it reveals how memory, belonging, and faith survive even after home is erased

  • Kibo Ngowi
7 min read
Just joking: Kwanda Radebe hosts the comedy and jazz series.
DAVID GOLDBLATT

Diary: Jokes & Jazz for UKZN, Strauss & Co photography auction, Locarno comes to Cape Town

Your essential dose of art and culture

  • Lesego Chepape
2 min read
Lithuanian Ambassador Rasa Jankauskaite delivers an address at Sammy Marks Museum.
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

Lithuania celebrates 34 years of independence 

On 11 March 1990, 50 years of Soviet occupation came to an end

  • Marion Smith
3 min read
‘Arrive Alive’. A man keeps warm under a flyover in downtown Johannesburg. Photos: David Edwards
DAVID EDWARDS

Gritty photographer’s work ‘speaks to the stamina and resilience of ordinary people’

David Edwards captures the soul of inner-city Johannesburg – the beauty and the harsh realities

  • Derek Davey
11 min read
Building trust: An image from Daleside: Static Dreams, a collaborative photo book by Lindokuhle Sobekwa and Cyprien Clément-Delmas which explores the farming community of Daleside. Sobekwa’s work will show as part of of blood, sweat and data, a show curated by Through the Lens Creative and Studio Nxumalo. It will show at The Zone @ Rosebank as part of FNB Art Joburg.
DALESIDE

The Portfolio: Lindokuhle Sobekwa

For this Thokoza-born photographer, intimacy is important, no matter where he is positioned

  • Lindokuhle Sobekwa
3 min read
Hasan and Husain Essop’s Facing Giblah, 2010, inhabits the mode of self-portraiture, accounting for several photographs in this Standard Bank Gallery exhibition.
ANDREW TSHABANGU

‘Photographs In Our Mother Tongue’: The new South Africa under scrutiny

A retrospective of photographic works at the Standard Bank Gallery offers a snapshot in time

  • Nolan Stevens
5 min read
Nontsikelelo Veleko’s Lesego, Miriam Makeba Street, Newtown, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2008
ANDREW TSHABANGU

‘Photographs In Our Mother Tongue’: The new South Africa under scrutiny

A virtual retrospective of photographic works at the Standard Bank Art Gallery offer a snapshot in time

  • Nolan Stevens
5 min read
ANC

The Portfolio: Tshepiso Mazibuko

Photographer Tshepiso Mazibuko says she is an artist at heart, and lets her imagination take control

  • Vus'umuzi Phakathi
3 min read
DAVID GOLDBLATT

The Portfolio: Nocebo Bucibo

Photographer Nocebo Bucibo explores the role of photography in the production of the Thokoza hostels as spaces

  • Vus'umuzi Phakathi
3 min read
Argentina player Diego Maradona (c) takes on the Belguim defence during the 1982 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and Belgium at the Nou Camp stadium on June 13, 1982 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Steve Powell/Allsport/Getty Images)
ALBERTO FERNANDEZ

Football legend Maradona dies

The Argentinian icon died at his home on Wednesday, two weeks after having surgery on a blood clot in his brain

  • Luke Feltham
2 min read
Artist and photographer Thembi Mthembu pictured at the Gulf of Venice in 2019. (Thembi Mthembu)
AFRAPIX

Talking Bodies: Photographers use self-portraits to tell stories

Mandisa Buthelezi and Thembi Mthembu are adding depth to the photographic archive through their self-portraits with captions and historical reframing

  • Niamh Walsh-Vorster
7 min read
Portia Zvavahera’s Embraced and Protected in You (above) and Robin Rhode’s digital animation, Untitled, Harvest, also have a role in the cross-cultural exchange in Mexico. (Jail Olmedo)
DAVID GOLDBLATT

Mexico with its take on the dead

The celebration of the dead finds a resonance with the works of some of our leading creatives

  • Staff Reporter
7 min read
Croatia fans poke fun at World Cup semifinals losers England following the Balkan country’s victory.
2018 FIFA WORLD CUP

Football takes a U-turn on its way ‘home’

How an earwormy, tongue-in-cheek song became an anthem of hope for Three Lions believers

  • Luke Feltham
4 min read
The believers: Nhlapho
DAVID GOLDBLATT

‘Umlindelo’ captures the insider’s view from without

Umlindelo wa Makholwa is not a series of images about religion, although it is born of religion

  • Nkgopoleng Moloi
4 min read
Connections: Far from the ‘plodder’ and the ‘coward’ that he painted himself as
DAVID GOLDBLATT

The essayist who froze history’s quiet moments

David Goldblatt has left South African documentary photography incalculably richer, writes Niren Tolsi

  • Niren Tolsi
9 min read