For all intents and purposes, the South African photography landscape can often come across as rather stale — with the almost overly sharp, clean-cut and airbrushed “international” editorial look akin to that of an Elle magazine — continuing to flood our social media timelines. One could argue that it simply comes down to creatives playing…
22 year old Ben Olive received a camera on his 21st birthday and has since then been capturing intimate moments on film. The Cape Town based analogue photographer focuses on conceptual portraiture but also works across different themes, creating an impressive portfolio that gives insight into Ben’s desire to test himself in everything he does….
“It is amazing, 30 years later, people going ‘oh you photographed legends.’ I guess I did, but they weren’t legends when I was taking pictures of them”. British documentary photographer, Janette Beckman, recalls thinking back to the first projects she was exposed to in New York during the rise of hip-hop and youth rebellion in…
‘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…
