Photo: X Fotomat website launch: Introducing Moss Moeng
Moss Moeng was born in Diepkloof, Soweto in 1994. A graduate of the Market Photo Workshop, he was mentored by John Fleetwood and Jodi Bieber.
His work was featured at the 2016 Denmark Photo Biennale, “Cities and Memory” at Kunstmuseum Brandts, Odense.
He has exhibited at the Turbine Art Fair and the 2015 Basha Uhuru Youth Day Festival. Group exhibitions include Tenebris ad Lucem at Agog Gallery and New Voices IV at Lizamore and Associates. His work appears in the catalogue The Journey: New Positions in African Photography (2017), edited by Simon Njami and Sean O’Toole, alongside the work of selected alumni of the Goethe Institut Photography Masterclass.
Moeng is a founding member of the BLD photo collective. He is an assistant retouching and printing technician at Lightfarm studio, Johannesburg.
About Ghost Town
Ghost Town is a small area that lies between Diepkloof Zone 3 and a mine-dump bordering the Soweto highway. Ghost Town is mythologized by some locals as a place of danger and uncertainty but in fact remains relatively unknown to many Diepkloof residents.
This work explores the effects of internalized trauma and memory on a community, resulting in the regenerated fictionalizing and isolation of this place and of its inhabitants. This project considers “ghosts” - human traumas and interactions that linger on and change the space.
Visit Moss’s website here: https://mossmoeng.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.
Learn more about Photo::
https://www.phototool.co.za/
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 https://www.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
Websites for South African photographers were supported in part by the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture.
Posted 03/11/2021.