The racialised reality of photography: 'Past Present...
From its very inception, the practice of photography has been imbued with racialised prejudices and biases; to accept this as a fact is imperative in understanding the work that photographers of colour, such as those included in Past Present Currents, an exhibition that opened at Cape Town’s Association for Visual Arts Gallery gallery in mid-April (closing at the end of May), do to reappropriate and subvert the photographic medium. Before photography, image making was largely done by artists who would draw or paint what they saw. While some were extremely skilled at lifelike renderings, th...
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