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.”
Like a magnet, the town attracts a journalist to fulfil a mission born decades ago
"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
"Susan Sontag was right about extractive, reductive photos, but her context isn’t mine"
The photographer fastidiously edited his exhibition ahead of its opening at the gallery
Open defecation is a reality for many people around the world. Here’s what it translates to.
A portrait of the enigmatic but gifted jazz cat and artist is conjured through the eyes of photographer (and admirer) Tseliso Monaheng
Photography is an art plagued by colonial voyeurism and today’s creators need to
keep this in mind
Jürgen Schadeberg’s images form a vital part of our archive but, like a photo, what his memoir reveals is selective
Kgomotso Neto Tleane’s photographs carve a revisionist path of his experience of Johannesburg.
Given little credit for his bountiful work, the photographer is a light to today’s photojournalists
How does a person place himself in the current South African discourse when he is young, white and male? As someone who ticks all three boxes, this is a question I ask regularly as I seek to challenge myself and those around me while being sensitive to the historical social privileges that these variables afford. […]
Two exhibitions, in the Women’s Jail at Constitution Hill and at the Old Fort rampart, challenge the omnipresence of male domination.
Images taken during the turbulent late 1980s help Ismail Lagardien understand power today – its grotesquery, deference, excess and danger.
The death of Kurt Cobain shocked photographer Youri Lenquette, but he sees future in African music.
Two photographers view the township in ways that avoid crass politicisation of the March 21 1960 massacre.
What started as an exploration of the struggles of queer people in Côte d’Ivoire ended up in
cementing a part of LGBTI history in Africa
This year’s festival in Nigeria is fiercely pluralistic, showing the work of 39 photographers.
Zanele Muholi speaks about creating images of LGBTI people that move beyond hate crimes
The themes of religion, gender and global capital reflect in the artworks that draw on literary references, myths and symbols.
Seema Allie and Taariq September use their cameras to create the stories they want to tell.