10:10 Queer
10:10 Queer
A special edition of 10:10 Queer was presented on Wednesday, 6 August 2025.
10:10 is a presentation and feedback platform where ten photographers each have no more than ten minutes to present their work, followed by fifteen minutes of critical feedback from peers and invited respondents. The format aims to foster dialogue around ongoing and existing photographic projects, offering insight into diverse photographic approaches.
This edition was hosted by Photo: director John Fleetwood, alongside guest artist Abri de Swardt.
Our participating photographers were:
Respondents:
Abri de Swardt (b. 1988, Johannesburg) is an artist based in Johannesburg whose work spans photography, video, sound, sculpture, costume and performance. A graduate of the Market Photo Workshop and Stellenbosch University, with an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, De Swardt explores intersections of queerness, decoloniality and the more-than-human. His projects often engage water as political microcosm and archive, merging historiography, fiction, ecology and desire to challenge settler-colonial whiteness, masculinity and perceptions of queerness in Southern Africa.
John Fleetwood (b. 1970, South Africa) is a photography curator, educator and director of Photo: and Co-head BA Photography at the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK, The Hague). He curated ‘Concurrent’, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark, 2022 and ‘Five Photographers: A tribute to David Goldblatt’ exhibited in various cities including Johannesburg, Maputo, Bamako (2018-2019). He was guest editor for Aperture’s Platform Africa edition. From 2002-2015 Fleetwood was the director of the Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg.
13 August 2025