What’s waiting for you at this year’s FNB Jo’burg Art Fair? We get a sneak preview of the weekend ahead and chat to curators and artists.
David Goldblatt is the featured artist at this year’s Johannesburg Art Fair. He is showing work under the title The Frock and Other Pictures.
Photographer Nadav Kander eschews images ?that reflect certainties and deliberately seeks to ?frame moments that leave questions unanswered.
Huw Morris’s photographic exhibition reflects on the ?master-servant dynamics and the desire for the ?other that probably existed in 1970s SA.
Artist Ayana V Jackson has caused controversy with her latest work, ‘Archival Impulse & Poverty Pornography’. We ask her the difficult questions.
What seemed to be banal images in a box of negatives offers an intriguing glimpse into the character and aspiration of the years from 1972 to 1984.
A multimedia project celebrating people who make a difference gives a clear portrait of the country.
Millions of people are posting self-portraits of themselves on social media – for some, this has become the ultimate symbol of the narcissistic age.
"After the Mines" is a project by photographer Jason Larkin that explores the vast waste dumps created by Johannesburg’s gold mining industry.
Indie journalism should be ripe for a kickstart, but microfunding might take more than it gives.
A new exhibition is haunted by the stories of people living in an abandoned Mozambican hotel.
The South African National Editors’ Forum has slammed the danger journalists are put in while out on stories after a Star photographer was injured.
Nairobi’s street photographers run ingenious and efficient set-ups throughout the city.
From Hugh Exton’s portraits to images of Marikana, an exhibition that remembers the Land Act also pays tribute to socially conscious photography.
In an industry dominated by male-made images, an extraordinary international project offers very personal points of view of five female photographers.
Works of art that concern themselves with various aspects of religion have proved to be popular with people who do not normally visit art galleries.
A photographer tells us about collaborating on a powerful project to document the diversity of spiritual practices in Réunion Island and South Africa.
Photographer Guy Tillim’s new exhibition focuses on power and ideology in Africa, where wealth nestles happily beside troubling poverty.
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The racist practices inherent in the history of photography are reflected in its technology.
A new photo book creates an alternative reality that turns thoughts about Africa on their head.
With her thumbs and a phone and despite zero artistic background, Verashni Pillay got her first exhibition.
Reminiscent of a well-crafted glossy advertising campaign, "Jong Afrikaner – A Self-Portrait" is a new book of photographs by Roelof Petrus van Wyk.
Not only the subject, but also the approach and concerns of two renowned photographers lend weight to a new combined exhibition.
A collaboration between the Market Photo Workshop in Jo’burg and the French Rencontres d’Arles has resulted in the Social Landscape photo project.
A comprehensive retrospective of Santu Mofokeng’s work deserves a better showing at the Wits Art Museum.
Accomplished artists find that their iPhones are able to capture candid images that weighty equipment might miss.
Pieter Hugo’s latest work, the Pirelli-commissioned At Home series of nude portraits of South Africans at home is all imperfect humanity.
Turner Adams, at the centre of photographer Gordon Clark’s latest body of work, is an extraordinary subject.
Alexandra and Soweto’s Pimville, Kliptown and Orlando are not usually names that conjure the hipster lifestyle, freedom, beauty or high fashion.
With his new book, photographer Ed Suter attempts to capture the essence of urban style, but it is a contrived package, writes Milisuthando Bongela.