‘My Brotha’ is an ongoing photo series that explores Urban Communities around the world, more importantly, the young Black men surrounding those communities. I want to reconstruct society’s thinking when they think of ‘Urban areas’, more importantly, the young Black men in it. For decades, kids that live in Urban areas have always gotten a…
Tara McAuliffe is a young analogue photographer from the Mother City whose work, and the intricacies thereof, shine well beyond her years. Her images shine in softness and sensitivity — creating scenarios in which it often feels like you aren’t just observing these scenes but that somehow — you’ve experienced them before. This powerful sense…
Fashion photography is equally about capturing the clothing as it is about the wearer; the bodily form brings life to the garments, and the two components work together to cement a designer’s vision for a collection. Christina Fragkou has an inimitable ability to consider both aspects when forging a photograph — one that reads of…
‘The writer counted, in the space of only four minutes, 93 native cyclists riding past the Astra theatre,’ wrote a journalist for the Star newspaper in July 1940. Standing almost 80 years later on the same corner of Louis Botha Avenue at the same time and day of the week – 6.30pm on a Monday…
It is not for nought that Black people go to the water to pray and commune with our ancestors — what the water gives us, reaches beyond the facts of this material, temporal enfleshed existence. Mare Monstrum/Drown in My Magic is Galerie Number 8 represented Austrian-Nigerian photographer David Uzochukwu’s ongoing photographic series initially began in…
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…
