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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Des Kleineibst
Des Kleineibst has been a professional advertising photographer in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa since 1980 and internationally since 1999.
He specializes in Automotive Photography shooting cars and trucks in studio and on location for above and below the line advertising agencies, CGI, Virtual Tours for Automotive 360 Exteriors and Interiors and Tourism websites.
Landscapes, Seascapes, Motion and Textures In Nature are his other passions.
Des Kleineibst is an automotive location and studio photographer with 28 years of experience. His passion for landscapes has taken him into the virtual world of CGI, leading him to invest in Spheron HDR and Panoscan camera systems and to open his own in-house CGI studio.
Des has been shooting on high-end PhaseOne and Hasselblad digital systems for nine years and owns his co-built 10m carbon fibre rig. He lives in Cape Town and has shot for all the major car ad agencies in South Africa. He maintains car studios in Cape Town and Johannesburg.