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Travys Owen // Reds, blues, pinks and yellows combine to express the richness of portraits

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…

Tsoku Maela – visual storytelling

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….

Miranda Barnes – A Humanist Eye into our reality

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…

A story of same sex love // Motswana Creative Director and Writer Tanlume Enyatseng debuts Editorial shoot and short film ‘THEY SHOOT BOYS DONT THEY?’ 

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…

Photographer Kader Diaby’s sensitivity towards ephemera

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…