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…
there is no inherent conflict between the mechanical or naïve use of the camera and formal beauty of a very high order, no kind of photograph in which such beauty could not turn out to be present: an unassuming functional snapshot may be as visually interesting, as eloquent, as beautiful as the most acclaimed fine–art…
Topography is commonly understood as the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area, represented either as an image or a map. It derives from late Middle English, via the Latin, although its origin is Greek; topographia – topos (place), graphia, (writing). Its Greek roots also refer to a further meaning, topothesia,…
Cape Town based analogue photographer Carl van der Linde’s images carry this quality, this almost unexplainable ability to make you long for places you’ve never been and for people you’ve never met. The images somehow evoke such a overwhelming sense of nostalgia that while scrolling through his impressive—albeit comparatively small—catalogue of work I’m left with…
The ebbing facts of daily existence stretched between the mundanity of routine and the regimented wake, work, wash and repeat cycle of global systems of capitalism can make moments of wonder and pure imaginative play few and far between. So much so, that where the possibilities of fantasy are concerned—that intangible matter that titillates our…
What sound does the dwindling voice of late capitalism sound like when its iteration is given harmony by the shades of the high veld’s sodium sun? What shape does it take, and what does it form say of those systems of economic access forming the substructure of our society where some would say “the only…
He grew up thinking that, of all the Blacks in Kentucky, only the five of them were men… Is that where manhood lay? In the naming done by a whiteman who was supposed to know… It was Schoolteacher who taught them otherwise. They were only Sweet Home men at Sweet Home. One step off that…
a state of active and intentional witnessing a careful and deliberate watching of someone or something. an assumption of looking to see an implication of being watched a world building act ebbing into our inner eye’s workings Axel Morin is a photographer and filmmaker based in Paris, France. The visual cultural worker and artist has…
A fashion enthusiast at heart, David Blaq Motsomotso has managed to merge his love for fashion and photography to create enchanting high-end editorial photography. With an incredible ability to swiftly and subtly transport one into a future world where cultural and social influences of the past and the present are re-imagined to empower and bring…
“Oftentimes the background to a photograph, and the story that informs it, are more important than the photograph itself.” – Jesse Navarre Vos Very often the outcome of a photo series is considered to be more important, and gets more attention, than the process that was undertaken to get to the outcome. I would often…
