Posts tagged Southern Africa
10:Queer

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 More
Tierney Fellowship Award recipient Tshepiso Mazibuko

The 2017 Tierney Fellowship at the Market Photo Workshop, in partnership with the Tierney Family Foundation, was awarded to Market Photo Workshop’s alumnus Tshepiso Mazibuko. The aim of the Tierney Fellowship is to provide an emerging photographer with the opportunity to develop their career and skills through a mentorship programme, an ideal space for a photographer to develop a body of work.

Read More
Johannesburg Photographers' Masterclass

The 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 More
10:Queer

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.

Read More
Call for Photography Writers in Southern Africa: CLOSED

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. 

Read More