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.
Mark, whose unflinching portraits of child prostitutes, mental patients and the homeless made her a leading documentary photographer, has died at 75.
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.
Young talents, who are attuned to the internet and blogging, are changing the face of photography.
Sibs Shongwe-La Mer’s work is about looking around. Instead of trying to normalise his life he endeavours to leave his life open to experiences.
Hanro Havenga set out to capture everyday life on the West Rand with his BestRand project.
Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s exhibition – 25 years after his death – salutes an artist who shifted the lens on depicting black male homosexual relationships.
Music remains centre stage at Jazz Fest 2014, but its full schedule will include a fashion show and photographic exhibition honouring Nelson Mandela.
Photographer George Hallet has devoted his career to making images of people many others would prefer to ignore.
Muntu Vilakazi shoots from the hip for his debut exhibition that focuses on people enjoying good times in the townships of the East Rand.
A photographer and a journalist spent months ?winning the trust of drug addicts in Hillbrow.
Okwui Enwezor: More about the man behind the ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life’
Bongani Madondo searches for elegance in a vast exhibition of photographic material documenting life in apartheid South Africa.
As great images make their rounds on social networks such as Instagram, Heather Green reviews seven photo-editing apps for tablets and phones.
From mine dumps to city skylines, four new books bring South Africa’s diversity into focus, writes Sean O’Toole.
Renegade photographers Juhan Kuus and Fanie Jason open up about their days of visceral and paparazzi-style lensmanship in South Africa.
Mariella Furrer confronts her demons in her book, "My Piece of Sky", as she untangles the horror of child sexual abuse. (Trigger warning)
To mark 16 Days of Activism, Human Rights Watch has released a documentary about the work of LGBTI activist and award-winning artist Zanele Muholi.
A deep look into history through stark studio portraits of South Africans.
In the fashion of great African studio photographers, Lakin Ogunbanwo tears down and rebuilds portraiture in his own image, writes Stefanie Jason.
While Nelson Mandela lies gravely ill, a grim tragi-comedy unfolds. A prominent political family is disassembling in public view.