Maria is a Romanian artist currently residing in Germany. She completed her MFA in Photography at Rode Island School of Design in 2017, she is also a recipient of a Fulbright and DAAD scholarship. In 2011, she began photographing her documentary series, ‘You Don’t Look Native to Me’ by lensing the youth of the Lumbee…
Woza Sisi is an exhibition that explores the ways in which women hairstylists working in Joburg CBD and Maputo manoeuvring through their days, as well as their strategic use of urban spaces. I caught up with photographer Dahlia Maubane to find out more about the project. What exactly inspired the ‘Woza Sisi’ project? I…
Kenyan artist Mimi Cherono Ng’ok creates images containing grainy nostalgia. Presented to the viewer like fragments of a dream or memory, they draw you back to your own past, poking at your own glimpses of people and places that remind you of home. Describing her practice as a kind of “emotional cartography”, her work carefully balances…
Individuals captured with an emotionality that becomes known to the viewer – these artists become a kind friendly face that you passed by once and stuck in your memory. Nostalgia. Attention halting. You wonder about them. Who could they be? The photographer invites you not only to see his lensed personalities but to see a…
Cities are complex and incomplete, they have the potential to be key organising units of our time where people, jobs and ideologies are brought together— vessels through which hopes and dreams can be realised; and yet most of the time they fail us. Our cities remain exploitative, exclusionary, coercive and classist, with little regard for…
With a background in architecture, and a general interest in art and design since his younger years, Kadara Enyeasi moved towards a photography practice that includes portraiture, art and fashion. This self-taught photographer plays with structure and perspective, often making the urban environment a key component in how he positions those who appear in his…
Ghanaian photographer Prince Gyasi likes to describe himself as an artistic vessel who uses imagery to express how he feels, and to share what he cares about. Primarily producing portraits and documentary photography, his work creates a collage of his city and the people who live in it. Playing with colour, shadow and composition, he…
The exhibition Umlindelo wamaKholwa features the work of multiple prize-winning and internationally exhibited Johannesburg-based photographer Sabelo Mlangeni. The exhibition is a collaboration between Mlangeni and Dr Joel Cabrita, a historian based at the University of Cambridge, and is accompanied by a 128 page catalogue. Having shown at Cambridge, the exhibition is at WAM, curated by…
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well. – Quote from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol. Emon Toufanian is an artist whose primary mediums are photography and collage….
An intuitive touch. Natural. Raw. Harnessing natural light. Embracing colour. Mirror and fabric come into play. Verging on surreal. Inspired by the sun and the ways in which light manifests itself. Alix-Rose Cowie majored in Art Direction during her Visual Communication studies at the AAA School of Advertising in Cape Town. A frustration with the…
An activation of materiality. A display of careful calculation. Grids and lines are followed in a non-conforming rhythm. Architecture is used as a curatorial device. An installation masterpiece. A photograph as a test. A photograph as a material object. A photograph as a sculptural object. Images untouched by digital manipulation. Welcome to two decades of…
German photographers Timmi Taubenschreck and Detlef Honigstein have been working in the fashion industry in various capacities for the past 12 years. The two of them decided to team up together and form the duo Honig Schreck when they discovered their mutual love for analog photography, and took note of the fact that a number…
