Photo: X Fotomat website launch: Introducing Godelive Kasangeti Kabena
Godelive Kasangeti Kabena lives and works in Kinshasa, DRC. She received her diploma in painting from the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Kinshasa, DRC in 2018. Her photographic work is concerned with questions of personal and cultural identity, memory and place. Kasangati’s work was featured at the 2019 Rencontres de Bamako Biennale for African Photography and at the National Museum of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2020.
Etrangère / Stranger
Etrangère is a series of self-portraits which explore trauma, memory, identity and place. This series interrogates the ruptures in Kasangati’s family life resulting from her parents’ separation. Staging these images in her home and spaces familiar to her, she uses her own body as a surface to explore personal history and the vacuums created by absence.
Central to this body of work is a questioning of personal and familial identity and shared and private narratives. Past events are reconstructed as a means of rationalizing trauma and understanding feelings of estrangement from familiar people, spaces and disassociation from one’s own personal identity.
Visit Godelive’s wesbite : https://godelivekasangati.onfotomat.com
Photo: has partnered with visual website builder Fotomat to create websites showcasing the talents of nine African photographers. Aimed at increasing visibility of the photographers’ work and contemporary African photography as a whole at a time when Covid-19 has shifted interactions and engagement online, the websites play a pivotal role in creating platforms to showcase important work from across the continent.
The websites have officially been launched on 15 September 2021.
About Photo:
Photo: is a multi-operation platform for the development and promotion of socially engaged photography practices, photographers, and critical visual culture.
Through curatorial and educational projects throughout the African continent and beyond, Photo: promotes emerging and practicing photographers and photography with the aim to encourage critical and experimental approaches/responses, that challenge and stimulate how we think about photography and our world.
Further, through commissioning, producing and connecting photography projects and practitioners, Photo: wants to encourage dialogue, exchange, engagement and participation.
Central to its vision, is the idea that photography can be a delicate tool for social change.
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About Fotomat:
Fotomat was built by the makers of Viewbook, a photo sharing platform and portfolio website builder for professionals that was founded in 2009.
Over the past two years the Fotomat team worked with artists, art educators, and photo industry professionals as part of a publication called "Transformations, Exploring Changes in and Around Photography". During this process it became apparent that there is a need for new and different ways to show image based work on the internet.
Disciplinary lines are blurred more and more every day, and many image makers are mixing video with still photography and other media in their work. They are looking for new ways to tell stories. To fill this void, the observations and ideas learned from Transformations have been applied to Fotomat and will benefit anyone looking to make a visual website, be it a simple portfolio or an immersive online exhibition.
Learn more about Fotomat:
For more information:
visit phototool.co.za or email info@phototool.co.za.
Learn more about the nine photographers selected to create websites with Photo: and Fotomat at https://www.phototool.co.za/2020/2021/9/15/photo-x-fotomat-launch-nine-websites-for-rising-african-photographers-1?fbclid=IwAR22N6Ds5ZyxI6O4RrRjmDrLcPjXXd7aHYFurhpJD5oeARW8zXP17Sjj88E
Posted 18/10/2021.