Projects
Market Photo Workshop and Rencontres d’Arles introduce the Social Landscape Project as part of the French-South African Season 2012/13.
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The Market Photo Workshop with GWANZA Arts is producing a series of masterclasses that look at the contemporary “state of photography”, with particular emphasis on the issues affecting South African and Zimbabwean photographers.
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The Makweteng project focused on heritage and living conditions in Makweteng, a historical township in Tlokwe in the North West Province of South Africa. Makweteng reflects the complex history of South Africa through its “pre-colonial period”, as an example of a colonial heartland in the development of Afrikaner nationalism, right through to being the first site of forced removals and its current cultural differentiation, with many foreign nationals inhabiting it. It also reflects the transitions and movements of the country in smaller towns, where cultures are often exaggerated and polarised.
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Hostels and Compounds was a photographic project and public programme on contemporary life and the heritage of government hostels and compounds in Gauteng. Out of it came a unique body of work dealing with the architecture of apartheid, as represented in single-sex housing structures that had been built by Gauteng’s municipalities for both males and females since the turn of the 19th century.
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