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‘CONNECTING with the outside world’. Coffee Bay, 2000. Photo: Sethembiso Zulu
AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY

The Portfolio: Sethembiso Zulu

My photographs make for detailed stories and use symbols that are meant to be read and analysed with an open mind.

  • Sethembiso Zulu
2 min read
Floral focus: Sitters Sami Maseko (left) and Dumisa Mathabathe form part of photographer Cole Ndelu’s project, A Study of Femininity. (Cole Ndelu)
A STUDY OF FEMININITY A RADICALLY SOFT PORTRAITURE PROJECT SUBVERTING THE ABJECT

The abject are the subject

“We tend to interpret portraits as though we were reading something inherent in the person portrayed … We easily link the people’s facial features to the content of their…

  • Zaza Hlalethwa
5 min read
Meditating on alienation: Thokozani Mthiyane explores the ‘mental states’ of men ground into Jo’burg’s rough streets. Photo: Oupa Nkosi
AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Behind the photo

"I talk to people I’m photographing to gauge their mood and to involve them. Portraiture demands participation or magic will not be achieved."

  • Oupa Nkosi
1 min read
From Malala Andrialavidrazana’s body of work Figures
AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Creating harmony and melody through the lens

The LagosPhoto Festival brings together 22 photographers from 18 countries to expand the scope and role of photography on the continent

  • Nkgopoleng Moloi
4 min read
Nandi Mayathula-Khoza
AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Steely resolve, unrelenting gaze

Veteran photographer Peter Magubane inspires both hero worship and interrogation, proof that at 86, he’s passed into the realm of legend

  • Kwanele Sosibo
8 min read
Young men with dompas (an Identity document every African had to carry), White City, Jabavu, Soweto, 1972
AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY

It’s not all black and white

A new David Goldblatt exhibition in Paris raises questions about the photographer in relation to documentary practice in South Africa

  • Drew Thompson
8 min read