2018 Projects/ News
10:Queer is a collaborative platform initiative developed by Photo: and the Photography Education Trust to facilitate critical discussion and meaningful content production on queer practices in Southern Africa, now. Invited participants include photographers and other professionals who currently operate within a field of queer practice in Southern Africa. The workshop sessions will be facilitated by guest advisor, Abri de Swardt and the Photo: team, Georgia Munnik and John Fleetwood.
Read MoreThe annual Photographers’ Masterclass took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, 3-9 September. Curators Simon Njami, John Fleetwood, Katrin Peters-Klaphake, Akinbode Akinbiyi and Frédérique Chapuis, worked with a group of 11 photographers from sub-Sahara Africa. This was the 11th and final edition of the masterclass, initiated by Simon Njami and Goethe Institut in 2008.
Read MoreLandskrona Foto Festival: Landskrona Foto Conference: A Meeting for Photography Educators, 13-14 September, and Landskrone Foto Festival Portfolio Review, 15-16 September
Photo: Director, John Fleetwood, was the guest presenter at Re:Think, Photography Educators Conference at the Landskrona Foto Festival, Sweden, with Lotte Sprengers (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL) and moderator, Rebecca Simons (Independent curator and educator, FI). He also participated as a reviewer for the Landskrona Festival Portfolio Reviews.
Read MorePhoto: and the Photography Education Trust hosted the fourth 10:10 platform on 29 Aug 2018 in Johannesburg.
10:10 is an interaction format dedicated to creating the possibility for emerging and practicing photographers to test new project ideas, to develop bodies of work, build further personal and critical skills and receive critical feedback.
Open call for participation in a workshop on queer social practice: photographers, activists, writers, academics, cultural practitioners apply.
Deadline: 25 September 2018
10:Queer is a collaborative platform initiative developed by Photo: to facilitate critical discussion and meaningful content production on queer social practice. Invited participants will include photographers and other professionals who operate within the field of queer practice in Southern Africa, today.
Photo: is compiling a database of writers from Southern Africa. As a platform for the promotion of photography work, Photo: wants to help develop the practice of writing about photography in the region, today. The platform wants to promote collaborative partnerships between democraSEE award recipients, finalists and selected writers for the database.
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