Johannesburg Circa Now

Johannesburg Circa NowFrom the introduction text by Terry Kurgan & Jo Ractliffe: "Johannesburg Circa Now is about photography and the city, and it started with a conversation. Cities run on conversations, and ours gave birth to an ever widening circle of engagement with others. At the centre of our original discussion were two shared preoccupations. On the one hand, an abiding interest in photography's relation to the real and how photographs mediate our experience of

a uniquely successful grassroots project that gives employment to poor women and provides them with skills training and HIV/AIDS support

Dayanita Singh

Beyond the Barricades provides an in-depth look at the complex issues surrounding the conflict in this racially divided society

Nora Schultz lives and works between Berlin and Cambridge

participating photographers

Accompanying an exhibition of the same name

While a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts

data and algorithms are inextricably entangled

it conjoins contributions from participants of a workshop on “undoing postcolonial knowledges: perspectives from academia_arts_activism” which was held at the University of Bayreuth/Germany in July 2019 that was organised by Manuela Bauche (FU Berlin)

in women's studies and in South African culture

But soon disillusion began to smother these feelings of hope and aspiration

Ractliffe is interested in the intersection of these histories: how they impact now