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21 - 27 AUGUST BUZZA weekly supplement of the Market Theatre Foundation MARKET PHOTO WORKSHOP AT SUMMIT IN CHINA PHOTO WORKSHOP MARKET PHOTO PHOTO WORKSHOP AT BRICS WORKSHOP SUMMIT IN CHINA The Market Photo Workshop, a “As part of revisiting and The BRICS Cultural Festival will be leader in photography education, excavating our digital attended by all five presidents of will participate in the BRICS photography repository with the BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, Cultural festival in Xiamen, China a vision of establishing the India, China and South Africa. The from 15 to 22 September 2017. future Pan African photography Festival includes several arts and This news follows the Market resource center, the Market Photo culture activities like, Ballet night Photo Workshop’s most recent Workshop is responding to a of BRICS, The Folk-Dance Gala announcement that four of its request from DIRCO, through the show, Singer concert of BRICS and alumni have also been chosen to Department of Arts and Culture many other exciting activities. exhibit at the biggest photography to curate an exhibition from our exhibition on the continent, repository of work produced by Bamako Encounters later this year our participating photographers in Mali. in the past 10 to 15 years.” Makola explained. “This opportunity will afford a significant opportunity for works of photography that represent the evolution of our cultural values and heritage as seen through the eyes of young South Africans photographers in Post-Apartheid South Africa to be seen beyond our borders”, said Lekgetho Makola, Head of the Market Photo Workshop. 2 3 OVER TWO DECADES PHOTO OF PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP EXCELLENCE For over twenty-six years, These public programmes seek practice, but it has distilled a new the Market Photo Workshop to inform the trends, practices, type of photographic practice has played a pivotal role in methods and contemporary ways amongst the greater artistic the training of South Africa’s of working and thinking in South community. photographers, ensuring that African photography practice visual literacy reaches neglected through exposure to a broad Various critical discourses, and marginalized parts of South understanding of visual culture as especially around the role of African society. Since it was well as a networking platform that documentary photography, have founded in 1989, by a group of encourages critical thinking and been stimulated by the multitude practitioners with photographer engagements. of exhibitions that have shown David Goldblatt, the Photo at the Photo Workshop Gallery Workshop has been an agent Showcasing many high creating dynamic interactions of change and representation, profile local and international between students and the greater informing photographers, visual photographers, as well as student photography community. artists, educators, students and alumni photography work, and broader communities of the Market Photo Workshop has The Market Photo Workshop trends, issues and debates in been able to build a strong and has since December 2016 photography and visual culture. consistent audience base around relocated to its new premises its galleries. at the Market Square. The new The Market Photo Workshop also premises houses two galleries to runs several public programmes Since 2005, when the Photo serve much wider photography and events involving and directed Workshop Gallery was initially activities and programming. at professional photographers, launched, it has encouraged visual artists, educators, students not only emerging students to as well as the broader public. experience and enter professional 4 James Ngcobo’s hit play, The Suit- contribution to French Language the “Dean of African Letters”. case, will return from the UK to and Culture. As a writer, he brought his own the Market Theatre in October to experiences in and outside South coincide with the 9th Anniversary Mpahlele was the recipient of Africa to bear on his short sto- of Es’kia Mpahlele’s death. the 1998 World Economic Forum ries, fiction, autobiography and Crystal Award for Outstanding history, developing the concept South African writer, educa- Service to the Arts and Educa- of African humanism. He skillful- tionist, artist and activist, Es’kia tion. In 1998, President Nelson ly evoked the black experience Mphahlele, is celebrated as the Mandela awarded Mphahlele under apartheid in Down Second Father of African Humanism and the Order of the Southern Cross, Avenue (1959). It recounted his one of the founding figures of then the highest recognition struggle to get an education and modern African literature. He granted by the South African the setbacks he experienced in received numerous international Government. his teaching career. awards. In 1969, he was nom- inated for the Nobel Prize for Mphahlele wrote two autobi- He was given the name Ezekiel Literature, and in 1984, he was ographies, more than 30 short Mphahlele at birth but changed awarded the Order of the Palm stories, two verse plays and his name to Es’kia in 1977. by the French government for his many poems. He is deemed as Images sourced online 5 PHOTO WOMEN-LED WORKSHOP EXHIBITION IN FOUR DILEMMAS Four Dilemmas is an exciting Market Photo Workshop’s courses, dilemmas that it frames through initiative that presents a selection mentorships and public projects this iteration. of women’s photographic work from 2004 – 2017. The project has that negotiate archives through developed into an interrogation of Four Dilemmas is developed landscape, the body and the photo the archival as a system that unfolds through conversations between album alongside placeholders and across economics, ownership, Thato Mogotsi and Mika Conradie. cues for further interrogations. memory, capitalism, community It features the work of Keorapetse and representation. Mosimane, Doris Nzimande, From symbolic voids that can be Lebohang Kganye, Samantha encountered as the negative spaces Four Dilemmas invites propositions Simons, Zanele Muholi, Phumzile of loss or as positive spaces that through the space that holds Khanyile, Simangele Kalisa, Babalwa demarcate ground to build on, to it and through a parallel public Mtanga, and Sydelle Willow Smith. various texts that complicate the programme that will unfold in exhibition and the archival, Four relation to the dilemmas expressed. The exhibition will run at the Dilemmas began as an exhibition The project attempts to lay an initial Market Photo Workshop Gallery project and inquiry into women-led ground for engagement that can from Tuesday 17 August to Sunday photography produced through the be taken forward and beyond the 29 October. 6 Photos were taken by Siphosihle Mkhwanazi 7 EXHIBITION INSPIRED BY THE MARKET THEATRE GALLERY The Rembrandt Fractal is derived from the previous name of the Market Theatre Gallery, the ‘Rembrandt Van Rijn Gallery’. The title is not a reference to Rembrandt Van Rijn the painter, but rather to the corporate funder and tobacco company, the Rembrandt Van Rijn Group, who were sponsors of the Market Theatre Gallery in the late 1990’s. “I found this to be poignant and ironic, significantly adding to the nature of the work which also speaks about dualities between the sacred, symbolised by Rembrandt the artist, and the profane symbolised by the corporate tobacco giant the Rembrandt Van Rijn Group” says artist Rhett Martyn. “The conceptual foundation of the work I have made for The Rembrandt Fractal is in essence architectural. Through this series of artworks I have depicted and abstracted the geometric qualities embodied in the Edwardian architecture of the building in which the works are finally exhibited. The project bears some relation to fractal mathematics in that the larger structural component (the building) is reflected in the smaller components (the artworks)” he adds. The exhibition at the Market Theatre Upstairs Gallery, curated by Danny Myburgh and Richard Forbes, opened on Thursday 10 August and will close on Sunday 27 August. 8 PHOTO WORKSHOP NINE PHOTOGRAPHERS IN EDITION 3 INCUBATION Nine emerging photographers mentorship opportunities, practice and entrepreneurial will participate in Edition 3 of the business incubation, and either success”, said Lekgetho Makola, Market Photo Workshop’s photo exhibitions or publications or head of the Market Photo incubator programme that is site-specific interventions as Workshop. supported by the Department of outcomes. Arts and Culture. The 9 photographers were “We endeavour to expose selected through an open Running into is third year, participants to a wide variety of call based on the depth of the photography incubation artistic practices to inspire their their photography project programme is designed creative thought and a sense of proposals and portfolios. Their for practicing emerging urgency for their enterprises. experience includes working in photographers who need One of the critical contributions media spaces, training young support in further developing to the programme is to photographers in townships, their photography businesses. introduce participants to trans- commercial photography and The programme includes disciplinary practices that would producing photography bodies several masterclass sessions, enhance both their artistic of work. 9 MARKET THEATRE LABORATORY LABORATORY REGISTRATION NOW OPEN With only six weeks still to go for Awards in multiple categories in The closing date for applications the Market Theatre Laboratory’s 2016, including Thabiso Ramalla, is Saturday, 30 September.