‘Drum’ photographer Jürgen Schadenberg, who died on Sunday, displayed a profound humanism, writes his friend and sometime collaborator Hazel Friedman
Artist Levy Pooe conceptualises his work as ‘a social diary of being black in the city’
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
Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning interrogates the links between colonialism, extractive practices and environmental catastrophes in Urban Africa
The renowned South African photographer understood how to look for the tucked-away spaces that were the sources of both light and dark
The artist is drawn to collage because it allows her to be as complex and layered as she wants to be
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’
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
With the Sharpeville massacre in mind, Kwanele Sosibo takes a look at how Tsepo Gumbi’s collection of photographs are a necessary intervention
Reimagining image making through concepts found in isiZulu
In his swansong, Santu Mofokeng ruminates on mortality, ancestry and dispossession
“The photographs in the series act as a symbol of, or a witness to, the economic imbalance that exists in contemporary South Africa, where people increasingly inhabit contrasting economic realities.”
Photographer Daylin Paul, inspired by a former colleague, brings into view coal’s devastation in Mpumalanga
"Even though this series was about being in a familiar space, it could be seen that I would intentionally place myself on the periphery"
Tshepiso Mabula’s photographs interrogate the postapartheid ritual of exhumation and reburial
The photographer’s images of Jo’burg capture its busyness and complexities
"I sought to create work that deals with memory, loss, nostalgia and the sense of what it means to truly belong."
Sam Nzima’s 1976 photograph still resonates with people – for different reasons
Hemelliggaam or the Attempt To Be Here Now, makes connections between the environment, astronomy and old Afrikaans science fiction novels
Celebrated Ghanaian photographer James Barnor continues his interview with Riason Naidoo, focusing on the later years of his career
He tells the story of his becoming a photographer and photojournalist in Ghana and in London
"I went out looking for memorialisation."
‘The process of writing in solitude is still puzzling. How am I alone when I have so many people inside me?’
"I thought that by creating a ghostly image I would reflect what I was feeling inside me — a feeling heightened by the constant beating of the drum".
“The most beautiful portraits of humans often occur when a person allows you in to glimpse the vulnerability and rawness of their being.”
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Like a magnet, the town attracts a journalist to fulfil a mission born decades ago
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"This image is important to me because it represents the day I made a conscious decision to open myself up to learning about and respecting amadlozi."
"I love storytelling. For me, the image, signifies that great element in my body of work, human interest."
‘There is a heroism to photographing on film in the age of the fourth industrial revolution’
Artists’ stated motives do not always tie neatly in with the perceptions and feelings of those being portrayed.
" 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."
An exhibition draws on people’s personal albums to reconstruct a past that is missing from current narratives