PETER TSIANE

Phofu Peter Tsiane is a film and image maker from the Free State, Phofu considers himself as a visual activist and a sensible art director, who uses the lens to narrate black township resiliency and for changing media bias and stigmatization about the black experience. Furthermore to create an open dialogue about his own challenges and lived trauma in a township setting. Tsiane’s role as an artist is educational in that it documents the black experience to achieve and memorialize a liberated, authentic account of their existence. His work challenges the status quo, especially regarding social or political issues. Most often it is personal and reassembles the misperceptions that society has towards black people. The visuals that narrate these stories are a representation of a the community in which he resides in, Virginia.