A short video profile of the Johannesburg photographer, Sabelo Mlangeni, one of 17 South African photographers in “Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography“, showing from 12 April through 17 July this year at the Victoria and Alfred Museum’s Porter Gallery in London. It features work by photographers living and working in South Africa now. […]
‘Afropolis’
November 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This photograph of Soccer City, the venue for the opening and closing games of the 2010 World Cup in Johannesburg by the young Johannesburg photographer Sabelo Mlangeni, is included in the ambitious exhibit: “Afropolis. City, Media, Art: Urbanization Africa, now showing through March 11 at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne, Germany. The exhibit focuses on Cairo, Lagos, […]
PHOTOGRAPHY / SABELO MLANGENI
December 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’ve featured the work of Johannesburg photographer Sabelo Mlangeni before. The photographs above is from his series “Men Only” series which documents the daily routines of residents of the run-down George Goch hostel on the East Rand of Johannesburg. The “hostel” (more like structures fit for animals) was built by mining capital for black migrant […]
PHOTOGRAPHY: SABELO MLANGENI
September 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
From his “Invisible Women” series of cleaners in Johannesburg. [HT: Herman Wasserman]
