21 October 2014
The Roodepoort Photography Project
http://wsoa.wits.ac.za/history-of-art/2014/03/20/roodepoort-photography-project/
BACKGROUND
The Roodepoort Photography Project brings together a group of young and emerging photographers into a series of visual engagements with Middle Classing in Roodepoort, an innovative research project by the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) that explores Roodepoort as a manifestation of new social formations in contemporary South Africa. In Middle Classing in Roodepoort,[1] Ivor Chipkin suggests that to see spaces like Roodepoort as simply a ‘middle class’ phenomenon (or worse, another artefact of ‘globalisation’) is to obscure their social significance. Townhouse complexes in Roodepoort constitute spaces of horizontal modernity, to paraphrase an idea from Carlos Forment. In other words, they are sites where the city, where order and rule are being constituted from below. These are certainly not spaces where violence is absent. They are sometimes, we shall see, oppressive enclosures. Yet their violence is of a different quality, not to mention quantity, to that of apartheid or of colonialism. Therein lies the innovation of the Roodepoort complexes. They are spaces of order, law and justification in response to and amidst the still-colonial form of South African society.
PROJECT
From 2013-2014 the Roodepoort Photography Project will bring together a group of young and emerging photographers into a series of orientation workshops, week-long photo shoots, and critical reflections, culminating in the publication of a book in 2015. The participating photographers include students and graduates from the Wits School of Arts, Market Photo Workshop and International Center of Photography: Melissa Bennett, Nocebo Bucibo, Lisa King, Mack Magagane, Michelle Monareng, Shogan Naidoo, Musa Nxumalo, Natalie Payne, Paul Samuels, Bianca van Heerden and Alexia Webster.
29 March 2014
One Small Seed video
http://vimeo.com/20921684
What's Your Story - Natalie Payne from one small seed on Vimeo.
In this What’s Your Story - a one small seed tv original series where we chat to local industry leaders about their careers and passions – we catch up with photographer Natalie on location as she shoots her sister Tracy’s Tibetan flag project. Natalie works primarily as a portrait artist, capturing the beauty inherent in all women, but particularly those whom society often shuns. From the too-skinny to the more voluptuous, her lens is a microscope through which she examines the flaws and perfections of those she finds alluring.
What's Your Story - Natalie Payne from one small seed on Vimeo.
In this What’s Your Story - a one small seed tv original series where we chat to local industry leaders about their careers and passions – we catch up with photographer Natalie on location as she shoots her sister Tracy’s Tibetan flag project. Natalie works primarily as a portrait artist, capturing the beauty inherent in all women, but particularly those whom society often shuns. From the too-skinny to the more voluptuous, her lens is a microscope through which she examines the flaws and perfections of those she finds alluring.
05 March 2014
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