‘PHOTOGRAPHING TAVERNS’: THE Q & A THEMBINKOSI HLATSWAYO & RUTH MOTAU[spacer height=”40px”] Thembinkosi Hlatswayo (b.1993) and Ruth Motau (b.1968) pose questions to one another about their respective experiences as photographers who developed work within ‘tavern’ or ‘shebeen’ contexts. Motau is a veteran South African photojournalist, who as a woman during the 1990s, ventured into Dobsonville Hostel, open to see where her camera would take her, only to discover a shebeen. Hlatswayo is of a younger generation and approached shebeens from […]
A Piece of Ground is a complication of South African music inspired by Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo’s Slaghuis II. The selection resonates like a vision of bodies and spirits gathered in the same room, sometimes at odds with each other, yet always held by a shared wound. Assembled at the Slaghuis, the bodies and spirits pray, laugh, scream, cry and shout. As they fix their mouths to speak, so the music begins. 1. A Piece of Ground Miriam Makeba Pata Pata, 1967 […]
Slaghuis II; Performing the artist statement. Slaghuis II, the exhibition, features a statement from Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo, which narrates a scene, perhaps a dream–possibly a nightmare–that occurs before his eyes. Hlatshwayo shared the text with Market Theatre Laboratory alumni, Chris Djuma who adapted the text and performed it at the first Slaguis II public walkabout on the 14th of March 2020.[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Biography of Chris Djuma Chris Djuma is an actor, writer, director and theatre maker who happens to be a third culture kid, […]
SLAGHUIS II: The Installation Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo’s debut solo exhibition, Slaghuis II opened on 28 February at the Photo Workshop Gallery. During the few weeks of February, the gallery was transformed with dark colour and by subdued light, to conceive a space ready to hold the body of work created over a 12 month period. With the combination of paint, glass, wood and metal and a team ready to work long hours, the gallery did not become the Slaghuis but a […]
Nelisiwe Nkosi first joined The Market Photo Workshop for the Foundation Course in Photography (FC) in 2017, she then followed through to the Intermediate Course in Photography (IC) and then went on to complete the Advanced Photography Programme (APP) in 2019. She produced her body of work ‘Break Even’ during her time at the Market Photo Workshop. This work was exhibited at the ‘Sexuality and Gender Based Violence Photography Project’ (2019 – 2020) – A project by the Market Photo […]