Photo Photography

Tag: South African

  • Ilse Moore

    Ilse Moore

    Ilse Moore studied through the University of South Africa and obtained a degree in Visual Arts in 2009. She has been featured in many publications and was apart of the Sasol New Signatures exhibition in 2010.

    “While my underwater photography often involves commercial shoots, my conceptual work speaks of a subconscious denial of reality. I have always been attracted to surreal imagery. I believe that photography as a medium lends a kind of realism to these ‘fantasies’, allowing it to exist in closer relationship to the viewer.”

    Her underwater photography consists of fashion, fine art as well as commercial photography.

  • Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones

    Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones

    Warren du Preez is regarded as one of the creative industry’s leading artists within image making and film. Du Preez’s Unique process of painting with light and form combined with performance lead the viewer to share their landscapes of imagination. The resulting imagery can be described as as hyper-visual and painterly. His future/past philosophy informs levels of abstraction and mystery that resonate and challenge notions of beauty. Du Preez’s subconscious homage to classicism and surrealism convey his vision of ‘dreams in reality’ illustrated by his unique artistic processes which show photography in a completely new light.

    Du Preez has created editorial for V magazine, Nowness, New York Times magazine, Numero, i-D, Big Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Muse and GQ Style. His visual innovation has led to commisiona to create advertising campaigns for: Lancome, Shu Uemura, Issey Miyake, Cartier, Boucheron, Hermes, Elizabeth Arden, Thierry Mugler, Shiseido, Cacharel, Nike, Levi’s, Absolut, BMW, Sony and Mercedes Benz.

  • Marc Shoul

    Marc Shoul

    South African photographer Marc Shoul has worked for various local and international magazines and advertising agencies. Through his personal work he explores themes of social relevance and change within South Africa, Africa and overseas. Marc studied professional photography at Nelson Mandela University.

    Marc Shoul, was born in 1975 in Port Elizabeth. Interested in exploring social issues, four years ago he began photographing the city of Brakpan, which is a 45-minute drive from Johannesburg. Street scenes and more intimate portraits compose a personal portrayal of a place that is “anchored in time, the same, but its own” — as the photographer characterized it in a recent interview — stumbling between a heavy past and an uncertain present. Though he has intensively worked on documenting Johannesburg’s energies and transformations and on informal settlements surrounding Cape Town, this interview focuses principally on “Brakpan”, his latest body of work, which recently received the first prize at the 2011 Winephoto award, as well as a special mention for his series, “Flatlands”.