We caught up with the founders and co-curator’s of DISKOTEKAH Gavin Collins and Michael Beaumont Cooper about all things DTK.
All the imagery were part of a fun experiment the DTK team did at the recent HALLOQWEEN 4 event, giving a few friends disposable cameras to capture the party from different perspectives.
The music video asserts POC queer and trans bodies, in various milestones, through the use of portraiture. The key themes explored are the family unit, growth, representation and the significance of the portrait.
I am intentional about documenting black and queer JOY
I’m one of the photographers who feed into the “anti-aesthetic” movement, creating art that gives a new definition to the idea of “beauty”.
I guess we’re all actors anyway. We get to enter these lives, play these roles, and then leave them…
This photo-series is about a man who is possessed by a religious practice that is not naturally within him and of him.
Kraaifontein can be a kak place. Just do a search.
TES / ROBYN PERROS
This story is a celebration of the beauty of aging in a westernized society in which aging is still largely misrepresented, shamed and hidden.
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow” – John Lennon
My gender identity influences everything I create! I create things that try break binaries of gender in a way to help me understand myself and my identity.
“THE ART OF SURVIVAL IS A STORY THAT NEVER ENDS.”–Christian Bale
You are gold forever. You might dim down a little every time life takes you for a drag in the streets but, it actually polishes you and your gold shines even more.
I’m a social documentary photographer, focusing my lens on South African fringe communities isolated geographically or psychologically from conventional society.
Most of my landscapes are collected on short road trips or exploratory outings, sometimes to places not easily accessible to others.
The Diver; A short story about an insecure young women who is self-conscious about her passion for diving. DIRECTOR: WE ARE BATCH TV ILLUSTRATION: FRAN…
I first picked up a camera when I was 16. We had black and white film photography as a subject and had a dark room at school – which became one of my favorite places to spend time in.
I am here to see it with my own eyes, for one moment in time I am free to document as I pleas
The attempt to be here now
Kgomotso’s work makes us aware of our ignorance.
Growing up, I moved around a lot and in turn was confronted with a lot of different situations and adventures. The only constant I can ever say I’ve had is skating and a fascination for film, as the people I surrounded myself with were always documenting and filming their day-to-day lives.
In December 2017, [CROP] Project initiated their first collaborative street intervention, using large scale photography and the streets of Johannesburg to connect different people across multiple platforms and spaces.
To be okay with not being like everyone else, and to be confidently vulnerable.
For most of us, our late teens and early twenties are an important stage of shaping our identity and self expression. This is especially true with these four South African individuals, each carving their own creative journey.
I’m trying to create content that centres people like me, People of Colour, Queers, and I’m trying to do it with as much authenticity as possible.
It was a belief that a mile could not be run in 4 minutes.
Now, over 20 000 people have broken that record- including high school kids.
“İ am how you see me“ PHOTOGRAPHY: SILA YALAZAN This is a selection of portraits I’ve been working on since living in my old home…
“I started photographing as a sort of personal diary. I still do this today. I document those closest to me – friends, family, and myself….
“I initially started shooting on digital but once I picked up the film camera, the digital had to take a back seat. Film was just…
“I think it happens organically? But I usually shoot in places I’m familiar with, whether it be in my hood or my homie’s hood, or…
