first UK exhibition of contemporary SA photographers

@ the Victoria & Albert Museum: London

FIGURES & FICTIONS: CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY

17 photographers 150 works 

 All the photographers live and work in SA and the images were made between 2000 and 2010. Each photographer is represented by one or more projects that are linked by the depiction of people and a self-conscious engagement with South Africa's political and photographic past.

These photographers "absorb and grapple with SA's weighty history, questioning, manipulating and reviving its visual codes and blending them with contemporary concerns. Post-Apartheid, complex and fundamental issues - race, society, gender, identity - remain very much on the surface. This is reflected by image makers who harness the resulting scenes as a form of creative tension within their personal vision".

• Jodi Bieber
• Kudzanai Chiurai
• Hasan & Husain Essop
• David Goldblatt
• Pieter Hugo
• Terry Kurgan
• Sabelo Mlangeni
• Santu Mofokeng
• Zwelethu Mthethwa
• Zanele Muholi
• Jo Ractliffe
• Berni Searle
• Mikhael Subotzky
• Guy Tillim
• Roelof Petrus van Wyk
• Nontsikelelo Veleko
• Graeme Williams 

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