CURATORIAL
BINNEGOED: Coloured and South African Photography - Kreps Gallery, Centre for Documentary Studies at Duke University (April 27 - July 29 2018)
This exhibition reflected on the history of race and Apartheid resistance to consider what it meant to be neither Black nor White but classified as Coloured, even a century before Apartheid began. Through the use of archival photography, BINNEGOED makes visible these small Coloured histories that, while marginal to the story of South Africa today, are rooted deep within the country and its body politic.
Drawn from collections held in Duke's Archive of Documentary Arts at the Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, BINNEGOED includes the work of some important, yet underexposed artists who came of age during Apartheid defiance, photographers like Cedric Nunn, Paul Alberts, Gideon Mendel, Zubeida Vallie, George Hallett, Paul Weinberg, and Bee Berman.
COMMUNITIES OF THE KALAHARI ADVOCACY PROJECT
The Communities of the Kalahari Advocacy Project is a training, mentorship and incubator programme, commissioned by OSFSA and conducted by the Market Photo Workshop, that has provided practical experience in photographic storytelling to two participants from within the Khoisan communities of the Kalahari region in Northern Cape.
Luce Steenkamp and Tommy Busakhwe have a background in videography and were selected to attend a 20-day photographic training programme, after which, they then travelled back to the Kalahari to photograph for another month before returning to Johannesburg to completed their training. Steenkamp and Busakhwe produced photographs under the mentorship of South African photographer, Cedric Nunn, with assistance from a network of professional photographers based in Johannesburg.
AfriPost: Epistolary Journeys of African Pictures
The AfriPost project considered intersections of epistolary exchange and imagery to provide glimpses into inner narratives evoked by images of Africa. It also asked to what extent is the initial reading of a photograph influenced by the culture, history, and place of the viewer?
By presenting personal letters alongside the African imagery by which they were inspired, AfriPost also invited viewers to reflect on the many unique narratives that were occurring in Africa at the same time as the predominant story of colonization, and the many unique narratives occurring today.
SLAGHUIS II
Slaghuis II is a search for what it means to be marked by violence. ‘Slaghuis’ is an Afrikaans word for a literal place of slaughter and a vernacular expression for a place of violence that had come to identify the tavern where Hlatshwayo grew up. He transforms the familiar spaces of home and tavern into places of making that takes up violence as a visual language.
Slaghuis II marks a second chapter in this ongoing body of work, produced as the 2019 Gisèle Wulfsohn Mentorship Recipient of the Market Photo Workshop. Hlatshwayo was mentored by John Fleetwood.