Latest articles on Photography

Reframing women in Namibia’s early history of photography

Friday Lorena Rizzo - 25 Sep 2020

Women photographers, and black African women photographers in particular, are largely absent from early histories of the medium. This is slowly changing

The Portfolio: Jamal Nxedlana

Friday Christa Dee - 25 Sep 2020

The national lockdown provided photography Jamal Nxedlana with a chance to push the boundaries of his practice as he transitioned into a new creative cycle

Phumlani Pikoli and the art of quitting school to make it

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 25 Sep 2020

Writer, skater and now filmmaker Phumlani Pikoli says his artistic intention was ‘to play’

‘He ain’t heavy, he’s a policeman and he’s paying . . .’

Africa Andrew Arinaitwe - 20 Sep 2020

The story behind Ugandan photojournalist Nicholas Bamulanzeki’s iconic picture of the policeman in the floods

Omar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary

Friday Niren Tolsi - 17 Sep 2020

Saho’s Omar Badsha believes in the power of people telling their own stories, but more funding to support this practice is crucial

The Portfolio: Khaya Ngwenya

Friday Khaya Ngwenya - 16 Sep 2020

Photojournalist Khaya Ngwenya’s style focus on exploiting natural light while staying in motion

The Portfolio: Lizzie ZiqubuM

Friday Baja La Dhlamini Sidzumo - 10 Sep 2020

Photographer Lizzie ZiqubuM’s Senior Citizens exhibition, on show at the KZNSA Gallery is a celebration and appreciation of the role of grandmothers

Obituary: The pointillist detail and zen brush strokes of Jürgen Schadeberg

Friday Hazel Friedman - 3 Sep 2020

‘Drum’ photographer Jürgen Schadenberg, who died on Sunday, displayed a profound humanism, writes his friend and sometime collaborator Hazel Friedman

The Portfolio: Levy Pooe

Friday Levy Pooe - 1 Sep 2020

Artist Levy Pooe conceptualises his work as ‘a social diary of being black in the city’

Review: ‘Ikhaya Likamoya’ by Sethembiso Zulu — Ties that bind us all

Friday Robyn Sassen - 1 Aug 2020

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

Extractive histories and a waste-laden present: On Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning

Friday Mpho Matsipa & Sindi-Leigh McBride - 21 Jul 2020

Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning interrogates the links between colonialism, extractive practices and environmental catastrophes in Urban Africa

George Hallett: Nomad, raconteur and photographer who ‘became the camera’

Friday M Neelika Jayawardane - 8 Jul 2020

The renowned South African photographer understood how to look for the tucked-away spaces that were the sources of both light and dark

The Portfolio: Puleng Mongale

Friday Puleng Mongale - 16 Jun 2020

The artist is drawn to collage because it allows her to be as complex and layered as she wants to be

Why we need a South African jazz photography archive

Article Rafs Mayet - 30 Apr 2020

We need more books about South African jazz, focusing on both the verbal and the visual, to fully capture and appreciate the unique ‘river of culture we’ve been bequeathed’

The Portfolio: ByLwansta

Article ByLwantsa - 6 Mar 2020

Hip-hop artist ByLwansta adopts a multidisciplinary approach to story-telling by making use of visual cues to reinforce the ideas that he puts forward sonically

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