Travys Owen is a Johannesburg-based photographer and film director with a passion and relentless enthusiasm for light and colour. He has worked with major international brands and publications: Fader, Honore Magazine, adidas (South Africa), Elle Magazine and artists including Nigerian singer and record producer Davido, visual artist Esther Mahlangu and musician Petite Noir amongst many…
Red accentuated by whiteness of snow which cakes to it like clumped frosting. A man holds a toy gun at an amusement park – his children seemingly excited about the violent game that is to ensue. A young boy with his back turned to his viewer is burning money in a lantern. These are the…
“‘And it is not just their art, not just the bibelots, all the gilded stuff from tables and mantelpieces, but their clothes, Emmy’s winter coats, a crate of domestic china, a lamp, a bundle of umbrellas and walking-sticks. Everything that has taken decades to come into this house, settling in drawers and chests and vitrines…
Sometimes, in a dream, (naked ). Eve. She is like a Palindrome, a word or sentence when spelled backwards, more often than not, becomes newly meaningful. But sometimes, Eve is just Eve. Her hairless body, her headless body-double, in a warm, black-and-white bushy dream. Stereo-Stare all you like, Bob. 🙂 Are you having…
Born in Port Elizabeth, photographer Farren van Wyk and her family relocated to the Netherlands when she was 6 years old due to the tumultuous political and economic situation in the country. She began her journey with the photographic medium in her teens by using her cell phone camera. At 16 she was gifted her…
Scarlett temptress. Basking in blood drenched light. Images made with passion unalike. Time, love, nurturing as the photographic image is taken through the various stages of development. Placed in tray one to develop, placed in the next bay containing citric acid, development is halted. Lastly ammonium thiosulfate is used as a way of fixing an…
Subject matter takes centre stage. Naturalistic portrayals. A diverse range of objects and subjects are lensed. Flower, plant, hauntingly sharp portrait depictions. A photographic world focusing on the beauty of life. Romanticism takes on a new meaning. Precision is key. With an origin story that began in a home environment characterized by a family unit…
Tsoku Maela, born in Limpopo, moved to Cape Town where he completed a BA in film at AFDA with a focus on screenwriting. In 2014 circumstances led him to take up the practice of self-portraiture – an avenue that saw him investing more into the transformative and translative abilities that the camera can be ascribed….
A flash into the lived experience of humanity in an age characterized by its technisization; baring soft witness. Miranda Barnes’ photographic images of essentially “what it means to be human”, the very emotional, sometimes painful reality of our existence is expressed with a gaze of sincerity. Challenging misconceptions placed on people of colour in the…
Pentax K1000 SLR in hand. A series constructed with images taken over a span of 3 years. House of Realness materially expresses itself as a zine, featuring the faces of Joburg darlings, FAKA and Nkululeko Masemola. Coming of age in Soweto, photographer Sipho Gongxeka spent most of his time playing football as a youngster, only…
Intimacy locked in. A moment; an expression of being – an archive of lived experience. An embrace of pure physical; spiritual emotion. Lingering intimacy. A rich kiss shared between two young men. A candid tale of queer love captured on the emulsion of a film roll recorded with the material’s light-sensitive silver halide crystals. Same sex tenderness…
A sullen look towards the camera, a veiled head….body painted in vertical lines along the edges…underexposure, a small fading —Kader Diaby’s series of photographs; Miria, iyé i yèrè gniniga evoke a deep gentle sadness. The Japanese have a term for this feeling; mono no aware —a transient sadness and a sensitivity towards ephemera. Miria, iyé…
