Roger Ballen is a well-known photographer who resides in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ballen has produced a wide range of works and his photographs have been showcased in some of the most prestigious institutions around the globe. In addition, his images have been included in collections of institutions such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA. During his career as photographer Ballen has won many prestigious awards, such as the Best Solo Exhibition at the Sani Festival in Greece in 2000, Best Photographic Book of the year at PhotoEspana in Spain 2001, Photographer of the Year at Rencontres d’ Arles in 2002, and the Art Directors Club Award Photography in 2006.
Author: Glenn Meyer
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Indrani and Marcus Klinko
Indrani is an Indian-Canadian director, photographer, and digital artist. She is known for her work for celebrities, beauty firms, advertising agencies, and fashion magazines. She often works with photographer Markus Klinko.
Indrani was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India and began a successful modeling career at 14, in order to work closely with great photographers and artists around the world. She studied philosophy at spiritual centers along the way, especially Vivekananda Vedanta, initiated by Swami Bhuteshananda, President of the Ramakrishna Order in India.
Indrani graduated Magna Cum Laude (High Honors) from Princeton University with a BA in Anthropology in 2001. At Princeton, she spearheaded the student movement to create a Program in South Asian Studies, and revived the teaching of Sanskrit. Simultaneously she mastered digital postproduction art and developed her photography with Klinko. -
Johan Wilke
Johan Wilke Photography Studio is in Cape Town, South Africa.
He focusses on fashion, beauty, documentary, and commercial work.
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Zwelethu Mthethwa
Zwelethu Mthethwa (born 1960), was born in Durban, received BFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. He received a Fulbright Scholarship that allowed him to study at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he received his master’s degree in imaging arts in 1989. Upon returning home, he worked for some years in business before becoming a lecturer on photography and drawing at the Michaelis School in 1994. He left the post in 1999 to devote himself full time to his art. Mthethwa is best known for his large-format color photographs, but also works in paint and pastel; he has had over 50 solo exhibitions in galleries around the world. Currently he lives and works in Cape Town.
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Mareli Esterhuizen
Mareli Esterhuizen is based in Cape Town and studied photography at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
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Gerhardt Coetzee
Gerhardt Coetzee studied photography at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. He completed a major project for his photography degree on the issue of white poverty in Coronation Park, South Africa.
His latest series documents the the Kempton Park Hospital which was abandoned, fully equipped, in 1997. Bureaucratic indecision and tender wars have kept it unused for fourteen years, costing the South African taxpayers over R800 000 a year to safeguard. The series emphasises the crushing failure of civilisation to evolve beyond the labyrinth of self-interest and highlights what might have been.