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latest news & developmentsReflections On Black Girlhood and the politics of representation
Black girls straddle inequality and shame, as well as joy and self-authorship, in a new exhibition, Reflections: On Black Girlhood
Thokoza: More than a place
Photographer documents life in the township where she grew up — and whole lot more
Photographing past and present newsmakers
As I enter the exhibition titled Names in Uphill Letters — A historiography of the newsmakers who tread(ed) South Africa’s soil, at the Workers Museum in Newtown, I encounter a…
Forgotten spools: Looking through the archive of Cynthia Mavuso
Cynthia Mavuso’s practice was fiercely communal and driven by mentorship. In this edited discussion transcript, Salebo Mlangeni and Thule Mavuso remember ‘CS’ through her photos
The darkroom process of Black Photo Libraries
A book of photographers with no photographs highlights the ownership battles black lensmen are still battling
Black Photo Libraries: Peter Magubane on the struggle for documentation
Peter Magubane, whose images set him on a collision course with the apartheid government, pays tribute to his colleagues in this foreword to a new book
The Portfolio: Tshepiso Mazibuko
Photographer Tshepiso Mazibuko says she is an artist at heart, and lets her imagination take control
The Portfolio: Nocebo Bucibo
Photographer Nocebo Bucibo explores the role of photography in the production of the Thokoza hostels as spaces
The Portfolio: Tommy Busakhwe
Photographer Tommy Busakhwe, a participant in the Communities of the Kalahari Advocacy Project, uses his camera to tell stories of home, land and the people who live and work on it
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
The Portfolio: Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo
Photographer Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo’s latest project, Slaghuis, is a recounting of the trauma he experienced growing up in his family’s tavern business
Slice of life: ‘Now I create for myself’
I’m also no longer trying to create work for someone else
The Portfolio: Bonile Bam
" I didn’t want to chase them because my goal was not to go after the wound; it was to document life in the initiation school."
‘Woza Sisi’ tracks the ways of street hairstylists
Photographer and graphic designer Dahlia Maubane tracks the ways of street hairstylists as insight on how women use and negotiate urban spaces.
‘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