"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
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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.
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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.
How photography gives former shelter child a voice.
‘Up Up’ looks through the lens of history at grand city centre architecture and tells the stories of those who’ve lived and worked in the buildings.
Mail & Guardian photographer Oupa Nkosi pays tribute to the great Malian photographer.
Photographer Warren Richardson won the World Press Photo of the Year award for his photograph of a father and his young child crossing the border.
Roger Ballen’s images in his latest book ‘The House Project’ will shake you to your very foundations.
Craig Howes’s photographs reflect reality and fantasy – and he comes in for a lot of flak and even more fans on the social media platform.
Zanele Muholi’s latest work finds the activist photographer turning the camera on herself.
Graeme Williams returns to track changes in the city in colour.
Raised in the school of hard knocks, a photographer is shunning the limelight to document township ills.
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Mark, whose unflinching portraits of child prostitutes, mental patients and the homeless made her a leading documentary photographer, has died at 75.
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Zanele Muholi has been shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse photography prize and sees it as an opportunity to put the LGBTI message on the world stage.
With the local art fair season about to kick off, we highlight some of the country’s – and Africa’s – most happening visual art events.
From Mack Magagane to Peter Magubane and more, the M&G has compiled a list of some of the country’s finest living black photographers.
Whether fragile, charming, seductive or frightening, Themba Mbuyisa’s photographs explore the various and contrasting emotions of the human condition.
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