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The Portfolio: Nocebo Bucibo

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Photographer Nocebo Bucibo explores the role of photography in the production of the Thokoza hostels as spaces
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The Portfolio: Lewis Holiday

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Photographer Lewis Holiday’s late-’90s image of DOOM captures the hip-hop artist’s early experiments with concealment
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The Portfolio: Thato Monare

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For photographer Thato Monare, documenting the rural Eastern Cape is a personal favourite
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The Portfolio: Sabelo Mkhabela

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Sabelo Mkhabela, a ‘writer who can take photos’ tells us about the image he took of American rapper Joey Bada$$ at Oppikoppi in 2017
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The Portfolio: Antony Kaminju

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Antony Kaminju shares his experience of making a photo of the Roving Bantu Kitchen’s Sifiso Ntuli
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Extract from ‘The Journey: New Positions in African Photography’ — an introduction

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A new book examines the great flourishing of photography across the African continent
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Extract from ‘The Journey’: Responses to the archive

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This sequence of texts was written in response to various photographs of Nigeria made between 1920 and 1929 that form part of the Colonial Office photographic collection
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The Portfolio: Mário Macilau

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Mozambican photographer Mário Macilau uses performance and play to expand the meaning of his work
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Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’

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As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
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The Portfolio: Saaiqa

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Photographer Saaiqa shares the story of how she captured this picture that reflects both the socioeconomic realities of our country and simple companionship
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The Portfolio: George Tatakis

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The Greek photographer is on a quest to document traditional costumes around the country
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Kamogelo Lebotse: The Portfolio

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Photographer Kamogelo Lebotse has been documenting the effects of the national lockdown on the people of Mahikeng
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Reframing women in Namibia’s early history of photography

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

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The national lockdown provided photographer Jamal Nxedlana with a chance to push the boundaries of his practice as he transitioned into a new creative cycle
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Phumlani Pikoli and the art of quitting school to make it

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