ABOUT

Dr. Candice Jansen is a memorist. She engages with photography as a writer, editor, curator, scholar, archivist, educator, and photographer.

Currently, she holds the position of New Archival Visions, Digital Curatorial Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape.

Jansen has studied the life and works of South African photographers Cedric Nunn and Ernest Cole. Her dissertation, Coloured Black: The Life & Works of Cedric Nunn & Ernest Cole (2019) was completed at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) with the partial support of a pre-doctoral fellowship in the Program in Critical Theory from Northwestern University. Additionally, she served as curator of Research and Exhibitions at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg (2019–2021) and is editor of Black Photo Libraries (2021), a research collection on South African photographic legacies.

Jansen has curated, written and spoken on photography for the Museum of Modern Art, the World Press Photo Joop Swartz Masterclass, Magnum Photos, Toronto Photography Seminar, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Aperture, the Centres for Learning Photography in Africa, Tate Modern and The Centre for Documentary Studies at Duke University.