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Full circle: Sindiso Nyoni’s design commissioned for In The Paint, a global series of artistic collaborations based around basketball in the community. Nyoni worked with the NBA and Hennessy brands on the project

The Portfolio: Sindiso Nyoni talks brands, values and nostalgia

The bulk of Sindiso Nyoni’s work involves brands. Making the concept translate is a tight balancing act

Straight on: One of the images from Themba Mbuyisa’s When Breadwinners Are Away, depicting the young and old people who are left behind when those of working age are driven from home to seek employment elsewhere. (Themba Mbuyisa)

The Portfolio: Themba Mbuyisa — ‘If you’re going to look at me, I am going to look at you’

Themba Mbuyisa anchors his photo series, ‘When Breadwinners Are Away’, in the absence of migrant labourers, but little to no absence registers on the faces of those left behind

Coming out: The portraits in Brown on Brown: The Colourism Project make it appear as if the subjects are boldly emerging from their darkness. Ravi Naidoo, who took this photograph of herself, says ‘colourism affects how every Indian person thinks about themselves and their sense of worth’

The Portfolio: Ravi Naidoo on starting a conversation about colourism

In creating her photo series, ‘Brown on Brown: The Colourism Project’, Ravi Naidoo realised colourism affects how every Indian person thinks about themselves

Untitled 21 (January 1st, 2020), 2021 (from the ongoing series eBhish’)

The Portfolio: Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose on bringing eBhish’ home to KZN

The artist reflects on the homecoming of his exhibition, and how it interacts with the gallery and its environment

Tableau: Dr Ainehi Edoro, professor of African literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the founder and publisher of literary platform Brittle Paper, hopes the list of 50 Notable African Books will inspire readers to read more books from writers on the continent. (Photo: Nicole Bitonti)

The Portfolio: Celebrating a great year in African writing

Brittle Paper’s 50 Notable African Books is the product of extensive year-round reportage

From the other side: A mine dump on Wemmer Pan Road, Johannesburg South, 2020. The photographer says Joburgers have an affinity for these dumps because, aside from a few natural ridges, the city is pretty flat. Photo: Marc Shoul

The Portfolio: If there is a jol there you will go

For photographer Marc Shoul, nothing is sacred in Joburg

Visual love letter: Tshepiso Moropa used her parents’ marriage as inspiration for her latest collage, titled Til Death Do Us Apart.

The Portfolio: Tshepiso Moropa digs up family treasures

Tshepiso Moropa used her parents’ marriage as inspiration for her latest collage, titled Til Death Do Us Apart

Blankets, Boitumelo Motau

The Portfolio: Boitumelo Motau on capturing a moment

Even in revisiting the space, I can never capture the moment, as if it were sucked into my camera when I pressed the shutter, muses Boitumelo Motau

Freedom fighter: Dulcie September was shot dead outside the ANC offices in Paris in 1988. Her killer has never been identified.

The Portfolio: ‘Murder in Paris’ director Enver Samuel

Thirty-three years since Dulcie September’s assassination, a new documentary hopes to bring her name back into the public consciousness

The Portfolio: Lindokuhle Ndlovu meets Mr Mbhele

A chance encounter with a stranger had the photographer rethinking the meaning of scars

The Portfolio: John Phalane’s art ‘gives me a sense of being myself’

Emanating from years spent behind the wheel, the artist’s style is part memory, part imagination

The Portfolio: Monageng ‘Vice’ Motshabi

Playwright Monageng ‘Vice’ Motshabi is always looking for something outside a Western “slice of life” kind of theatre

The Portfolio: The piano offers Nomfundo Xaluva place to dream and become

Although it is in many ways a prohibitive instrument, particularly in terms of access, the piano offers both simplicity and richness to this songwriter

The Portfolio: Geoff Dyer

In this extract from But Beautiful, the writer Geoff Dyer reflects on how photographs ‘work on you’

The Portfolio: Siphiwe Mhlambi on Jonas Gwanga, ‘a proper human being’

Siphiwe Mhlambi spent several years photographing his friend Jonas Gwangwa as he performed. Mhlambi spoke to the Mail & Guardian about their relationship

The Portfolio: Nocebo Bucibo

Photographer Nocebo Bucibo explores the role of photography in the production of the Thokoza hostels as spaces

The Portfolio: Thato Monare

For photographer Thato Monare, documenting the rural Eastern Cape is a personal favourite

The Portfolio: Percy Mabandu

Writer and visual artist Percy Mabandu talks about the energy of his portrait of Bra Winston Mankuku Ngozi, entitled ‘The Bull’

American rapper Joey Bada$$ performs Temptation at Oppikoppi in 2017. (Photo: Sabelo Mkhabela)

The Portfolio: Sabelo Mkhabela

Sabelo Mkhabela, a ‘writer who can take photos’ tells us about the image he took of American rapper Joey Bada$$ at Oppikoppi in 2017

For the photographer, the Roving Bantu Kitchen, which Sisifso Ntuli co-founded, reminded him of Fela Kuti’s Shrine, hence the decision to title the image the Roving Bantu Shrine. (Photo: Antony Kaminju)

The Portfolio: Antony Kaminju

Antony Kaminju shares his experience of making a photo of the Roving Bantu Kitchen’s Sifiso Ntuli