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He has covered personal projects and assignments on primarily Nigeria and West Africa but has gained international recognition. [ 1 ] Beginning his career as a freelance photographer, his work has covered the rapid development of urban Nigeria and various social issues such as sexuality, gender politics, football, popular culture, and immigration.
Photography in South Africa has a lively culture, with many accomplished and world-renowned practitioners. Since photography was first introduced to the Cape Colony through the colonising powers, photography has variously been used as a weapon of colonial control, a legitimating device for the apartheid regime, and, in its latest incarnation, a mechanism for the creation of a new South African ...
Kevin Carter (13 September 1960 – 27 July 1994) [1] was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club.He was the recipient in 1994 of a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph depicting the 1993 famine in Sudan; he died by suicide four months after at the age of 33.
Delphine Diallo was born in 1977, in France. [citation needed] Diallo graduated from the Académie Charpentier School of Visual Art in Paris in 1999, before working in the music industry for seven years as a special-effects motion artist, video editor and graphic designer.
Ernest Levi Tsoloane Cole (21 March 1940 [1] – 19 February 1990) was a South African photographer. In the early 1960s, he started to freelance for clients such as Drum magazine, the Rand Daily Mail, and the Sunday Express. This made him South Africa's first black freelance photographer. [2] [3]
Ken Oosterbroek (14 February 1962 [1] [2] – 18 April 1994) was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He worked for The Star in Johannesburg, which was South Africa's biggest daily broadsheet. He won numerous photography awards for his work.
The presentation thrilled the audience with a South African Inspired Collection called "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrica" (God Bless Africa). This was the start of Hendrik's passion for creating his own unique fabrics through various methods of fabric manipulation, hand dyeing and airbrushing; having learned some of the skills required while practising ...
The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) is a private collection created in 1989 by Jean Pigozzi, an Italian businessman, after his encounter with French independent curator, André Magnin. Magnin specializes in art from non-Western cultures, and especially sub-Saharan art.