Team

Director John Fleetwood
johnf@phototool.co.za

John Fleetwood is a photography curator and educator and director of Photo:. (b. 1970, Johannesburg).

Fleetwood has curated numerous exhibitions including recently ‘Concurrent’, Aarhus, Denmark, 2021, ‘Five Photographers: A tribute to David Goldblatt’ (Johannesburg, Maputo, Durban, Bamako et al.; 2018-2019); ‘Of traps and tropes’ (Kerkennah, Tunisia; 2018); ‘A Return to Elsewhere’ (Johannesburg, Brighton Photo Biennale; 2014); ‘Transition’ (Johannesburg, Arles; 2012-2013). In 2017, he was guest editor for Aperture’s ‘Platform Africa’ edition.

As educator and strategist, through Photo:, he has facilitated, organised and supported a range of different education interventions, activities and organisations. He convenes the Ernest Cole Award, an award programme for South African photographers. Fleetwood works closely with the Centres of Learning for Photography in Africa and other institutions of education.

More recently, in Oct 21, Fleetwood became the co-Heaf of BA Photography at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK).

From 2002-2015 Fleetwood was the Director of the Market Photo Workshop, a school, gallery and project space.

Fleetwood acts in various capacities in the following projects:

• Juror, Hasselblad Award ‘23, Foam Paul Huf Award ‘23

• Nominator, Prix Pictet Award, since 2016 http://www.prixpictet.com

• Nominator, Foam Paul Huf Award, since 2017 https://www.foam.org/talent/foam-paul-huf-award

• Jury member for the CAP Prize, International Prize for Contemporary African Photography, since 2014 https://www.capprize.com

• Jury member, Pride Photo Award, 2016, 2018 http://www.pridephotoaward.org/en/

Coordinator
Jodie Pather
coordinator@phototool.co.za  

Jodie Pather (b. 1996, Durban), currently lives and works in Johannesburg. Pather is a Masters student in History of Art, at Wits University whose research currently focuses on community-based art centres in Johannesburg.  

Pather considers herself a theory-practitioner, concerned with arts education, community development, thinking through feminist methodologies and creative theorisation. Her work seeks to highlight and reevaluate the accessibility of the arts.