Dadi is an Ivorian visual artist and creative director based in Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire. Nuits Balnéaires is his artist name — translating to seaside nights in English — and it is also his main project in development originally inspired by a poem he wrote. Balnéaires derives inspiration for his work through poetry, spirit of water,…
Provoke Magazine—has over the years—acquired somewhat of a cult following; particularly within the East Asian art sphere. Characterised by its gritty, rough, blurry and often out of focus photographic style which is now referred to as “are-bure-boke”. In truth, are-bure-boke was the perfect form of stylistic expression as its emphasis on movement and disorientation captured,…
Fiction and art go side by side. One doesn’t depend on the other, however, I do think they become more beautiful the closer they exist to one another. In their junctions, the imagination is provoked and the ability to invent and create becomes clear. All this leads us to great capacities of significance and meaning…
Kent Andreasen is a Cape Town based analogue photographer and cinematographer with an already absolutely stellar resume having produced work for the likes of The New Yorker and Time Magazine, to name but a few. It is, however, not the resume of any artist that resonates with me, but rather the degree to which the…
Cape Town based photographer Dune Tilley’s list of accomplishments reads like the storied career of some veteran figure within the South African creative landscape. Having worked for international mega-corporations including CNN, Adidas, Asics, Def Jam Records and BMW. There is quite a caveat though. You see Dune is only turning 21 later this year. Now,…
If one were to ask; what is African photography? The answer would be; that it is variable. Variable, according to the author Will Eaves, is a property that logically transforms. Variability is tethered to change, it can be this or that. Similarly, African photography can be this or that. What is clear is that there…
Ways of relating to, and relationships with our surroundings and spaces will always be present. The memories of these are kept and little by little — throughout our lives — are exhibited, justified, materialised or simply disappear. Memories are parts that connect us as human beings; some researchers say that memories are a set of…
there is no inherent conflict between the mechanical or naïve use of the camera and formal beauty of a very high order, no kind of photograph in which such beauty could not turn out to be present: an unassuming functional snapshot may be as visually interesting, as eloquent, as beautiful as the most acclaimed fine–art…
Topography is commonly understood as the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area, represented either as an image or a map. It derives from late Middle English, via the Latin, although its origin is Greek; topographia – topos (place), graphia, (writing). Its Greek roots also refer to a further meaning, topothesia,…
Cape Town based analogue photographer Carl van der Linde’s images carry this quality, this almost unexplainable ability to make you long for places you’ve never been and for people you’ve never met. The images somehow evoke such a overwhelming sense of nostalgia that while scrolling through his impressive—albeit comparatively small—catalogue of work I’m left with…
The ebbing facts of daily existence stretched between the mundanity of routine and the regimented wake, work, wash and repeat cycle of global systems of capitalism can make moments of wonder and pure imaginative play few and far between. So much so, that where the possibilities of fantasy are concerned—that intangible matter that titillates our…
What sound does the dwindling voice of late capitalism sound like when its iteration is given harmony by the shades of the high veld’s sodium sun? What shape does it take, and what does it form say of those systems of economic access forming the substructure of our society where some would say “the only…
