INDANDA DAM / BLEACHING WATER
It has been over three decades since the people of Esikebheni—an area outside Inanda (Durban)—have been displaced by Inanda dam. Forced to start over due…
LENSE
UPROAR / PEASANT
“People always like to talk about the good old days and the past to try to get to this utopian view of the world and…
ALMOST BEYOND NORMALITY / WILLOW BORAIN
I welcome you with open arms into a place almost beyond normality. This shoot was borderline acceptable / borderline plain strange. With an appearance of…
GOING UNDERGROUND / DAVID BLOOMER
Illegal mining is a story I’m currently working on. It is a story I decided upon a few years ago while working on a commissioned…
REHEARSAL / CAPE TOWN CITY BALLET
It was getting close to nine in the evening as I made my way happily along the N2 towards Stellenbosch. I had a large cup…
adidas CONSORTIUM / SHELFLIFE ZX 4000
The latest adidas Consortium release is also the first to be created in collaboration with a South African partner: streetwear pioneers Shelflife Since it first…
STALKER / TANDEKILE MKIZE
I feel as though it is important for creatives to be able to be vulnerable. It’s not necessarily the easiest thing but that’s the most…
COVERED / BURTON MILES
“Our eyes are open but we can’t see. The draped fabrics only fall down to the truth of our emptiness. We’re blinded by the bright…
THE BUTTERFLY / KYLE STRYDOM
The Butterfly is a series of images where the styling is inspired by the life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly.
CHOICE / KATYA ABEDIAN x CHIME FOR CHANGE
Choice is the greatest privilege we have…
We can do anything we choose to set our effort towards. We even choose which thoughts we let linger, and those thoughts become our reality.
ROSES FOR THE OCEAN / TS’EPISO MAHASE
She takes a decision that will change her life forever.
DISKOTEKAH / GAVIN COLLINS & MICHAEL COOPER
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.
QUEENIE / FAKA
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.
STALKER / NEO BAEPI
I am intentional about documenting black and queer JOY
ABERRATION / OBAKENG MOLEPE
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”.
CALI-LLUSIONS / SAMORA CHAPMAN
I guess we’re all actors anyway. We get to enter these lives, play these roles, and then leave them…
POSSESSED / KEITH VIRGO
This photo-series is about a man who is possessed by a religious practice that is not naturally within him and of him.
EAT CROW / GERHARDT COETZEE
Kraaifontein can be a kak place. Just do a search.
TES / ROBYN PERROS
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.
LIKE FLOWERS GROW: AFRICAN QUEER WANDERERS / TRYBE COLLECTIVE
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow” – John Lennon
DANIEL WALTON
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.
ME / GIDEON ALLEN
“THE ART OF SURVIVAL IS A STORY THAT NEVER ENDS.”–Christian Bale
GOLDISH RUSH / ABONGWE QOKELA
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.
FRINGE COMMUNITIES / LUKE DANIEL
I’m a social documentary photographer, focusing my lens on South African fringe communities isolated geographically or psychologically from conventional society.
SOMBER DAYS / LOUIS VORSTER
Most of my landscapes are collected on short road trips or exploratory outings, sometimes to places not easily accessible to others.
THE DIVER / ANIMATION
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…
IN THE MOMENT / JESSE NAVARRE VOS
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.
PLEASE, TAKE ME BACK / LUKE MARITZ
I am here to see it with my own eyes, for one moment in time I am free to document as I pleas
HEMELLIGGAAM OR THE ATTEMPT TO BE HERE NOW
The attempt to be here now
VARIOUS DIMENSIONS / KGOMOTSO NETO TLEANE
Kgomotso’s work makes us aware of our ignorance.