Everyone in Afghanistan thinks that to bring about change they have to become politicians, and I think that’s wrong. No matter what you do, if you do it well you can bring change. — Farzana Wahidy Born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Farzana Wahidy is a documentary photographer and photojournalist. Her practice is centred around the documentation…
Elle Pérez is a photographer and filmmaker from The Bronx, New York. Their work is known for fragmentation of the body. As they explain in an interview with América Latina the art is a reflection of the way that they look at someone they love, saying “At first, when they’re new to you, and then…
(in)sight is a photographic exhibition curated by Michelle Harris and Michelle Loukidis of Through The Lens Collective (photographic education and gallery space). The experience of ‘being here now’ is the central theme that binds the photographers of the show’s work together. An exhibition that features all womxn photographers, the list expands to include Sydelle Willow…
Sao Paulo based photographer Felipe Avila came into the world of photography through a boyfriend who introduced him to the medium three years ago with the allure of a Pentax Spotmatic. From this initial brush with the medium he was inspired to begin shooting on his mother’s old Olympus Trip 35. I had an interview…
Just over a week ago I entered through the door of BKhz. From the moment the two shows, The Zeitgeist curated by Banele Khoza and Metamorphosis curated by Nkhensani Mkhari opened to he public there was a steady movement of bodies entering the space. We watched two models as they performed for The Zeitgeist. In the…
Vuyo Tlholoe, aka Erem Malo, stumbled into a connection with art at a relatively young age through befriending someone new at school. She describes herself as always being a bit of a loner, so perhaps fate stepped in with this friendship, allowing Vuyo to find her purpose and passion in this way. Her photography work…
London based analogue photographer Jamie Noise shows us that film can be an accessible means of image creation–contrary to popular belief. The film photographer works on cheap cameras that are held together by tape as well as a gifted Canon AE-1 35mm camera and a Polaroid camera purchased at a bargain price on eBay. Taking…
Photographer Zoé Lawrence was born in Pembroke Pines, Florida and grew up between Jamaica and Florida. Zoé’s practice is focused on the intersection of race and gender in space. With her work, she wishes to ignite change in relation to substanceless narratives that shrink the black femme experience to stereotypical thought. Her portraits of women…
Suffering from frequent nosebleeds, photographer, filmmaker and collage artist Giancarlo LaGuerta’s, blood from his nose would sometimes come gushing out during his sleep. “This meant that I would choke on the blood sometimes before being jolted from my dreams.” The first few times the blood came gushing from his nostrils his mother was alarmed as…
A queer experience: You are seated with your girlfriend, two women at a table, waiting. A straight couple walks into the room and is attended to right away: sir, madam, over here, sir, madam. Sometimes if you do not appear as you are expected to appear, you do not appear. There are many who do…
Jeremy Pelser is using his passion for images and futurism to speak about queerness—creating a new language to simultaneously challenge and connect. Within these images, there are no boys and girls or men and women, there are just people. A leg stretches out aslant. The oversized shoe seemingly disproportionate to the body from which it…
Insizwa is a Zulu term that describes young masculinity. Bongani Ndlovu photographs himself for the series, naming himself as masculine and in a sense, subverts the term. Growing up he was not considered to be masculine and often times shamed because he did not fit societal understandings of what masculinity looks like. Delving into ideas…
