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EventLegendary photographer Sam Nzima dies
On 12 May 2018, legendary photographer Sam Nzima passed away at the age of 83 in hospital in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga. Nzima was born in Lillydale a small village…
BiographyJane Alexander
… 2008); Rise and Fall of Apartheid, International Center of Photography New York curated by Okwui Enwezor (2012-14); …
BiographyPaul Konings
Paul Konings was born in Tokoroa, New Zealand in 1958. Konings came to South Africa in 1975 to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of…
ArchiveThe boundless energy of Paul Grendon; artist, painter, activist and documentary photographer by Chris Ledochowski
… days we continued to share our passion for documentary photography, always approaching each other for critiques on … had changed. He had become passionate…
ArticleMads Nørgaard
… photographer. While studying his National Diploma in Photography at CityVarsity, where he emerged top of his …
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… but very few people knew anything about magazine photography. 'I looked around for someone who might teach me, … understanding that I was not equipped in…
Cedric Nunn
… and raised in Hluriluwe, Mangete and Baynesfield. I began photography in Durban in the early eighties, my initial … exhibited extensively, both locally and…
Karen Nieuwoudt
… fostered then. I have almost always had an interest in photography. In 2004 I entered a photo competition and came … 2nd in the category 'play and the city'…
BiographyBee Berman
Bee Berman was born in 1949 in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape).After her schooling, Berman worked as a stage designer and actress at The Space…
BiographyArthur Albert Hugh Adams
… in the Transvaal had happened – but it does something that photography cannot do. It makes the horrors of war universal, …
BiographyHector Pieterson
Hector Pieterson* was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper photograph by Sam Nzima -…
Rafique Mayet
… things. In 1983, Omar Badsha taught him the basics of photography and he started working at the Daily Dispatch in … , 1993; "Meeting Grounds" - the Durban…
BiographyMaxwell Mduduzi Malinga
Maxwell Mduduzi Malinga, was one of South Africa’s most gifted and beloved fighters in the 1970s and 80s. He was born on 09 November 1947 at Steadville,…
James Chapman (90) dies in Kimberley. He was the first explorer who took photographs of places he visited.
BiographyMyron Peter
Myron Peter was born in 1954 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He studied at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) [now University of KwaZulu…
ArchiveThe Colonising Camera photographs in the making of Namibian History
BiographyBen Mclennan
Ben Mclennan was born in 1956 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Mclennan moved to South Africa with his family in 1958 at the age of two. He received his early…
ArchivePhotograph: Delegates at the foreign investment seminar included representatives from the SACP,ANC,Cosatu and local and foreign experts
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
… Wilson and the establishment of a centre for documentary photography at UCT.. The Carnegie photographic project was … developments in the emergence of a new…
BiographyCloete Breytenbach
Breytenbach was born in 1933 and grew up in Bonnievale in the Cape Winelands. His father was a farmer. Later the family moved to Wellington in Cape Town. As a…
BiographyJohn Kutlwano Legingoane
John Kutlwano Legingoane (24) had worked at Lonmin for 5 years. On 16 August 2012 John was shot twice in the neck and head. The bullets were fired from an R4…
BiographyGlynn Griffiths
Glynn Griffiths was born on 20th March 1950 and grew up in the tough diamond mining town of Jagersfontein in the Free State in South Africa,though he was a…
BiographyCythna Lindenberg Letty
Letty began her first work in the art field in 1925 when she began work at the Onderstepoort Veterinary laboratory. Here she had to record in detail the post…
BiographyLeonard (Len) Lee-Warden
Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden was born in 1913. A linotype operator, he came to South Africa in 1936 from England after serving a five year apprenticeship in London…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… Drum , and it attracted those interested in writing and photography and allowed them to develop their skills. Photography was an especially important…
BiographyHerbert Mabuza
Herbert Mabuza was an outstanding photographer, who was promoted to the position of managing editor at the Sunday Times and later to the same position at the…
Maria Wilman
Wilman studied botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when she received a certificate. It was only in 1931, once women were allowed…
Wendy Schwegmann
Wendy Schwegmann was born in 1954 in Zululand, where she spent her youth. She has a diploma in Interior Design from Natal Technical college and is a graduate…
BiographyJulian Raymond Cobbing
Julian Cobbing was born in 1944 in London. He studied at the University of London where he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and later obtained his PHD…
Andrew Tshabangu
… by the Gasworks Art Studios in London (1998) and taught photography at the Children?s Photography Workshop (1995) and at the Market Photo Workshop … in…