South African jazz artists tend to immerse themselves in art spaces other than music. It is a visual and musical communing across forms that meet not only in artistry, but also in politics.
Crossing Strangers marks Johannesburg based photographer Andile Buka s first published body of work.
Crossing Strangers is a photobook which explores the landscape of Johannesburg, the people who both inhabit and fill its city streets.
Below and accompanying the book is an essay by Rangoato Hlasane.
Johannesburg is for sale. I am not talking about Modderfontein or Soweto, but Johannesburg that claims its own post office code: 2000. Ok, perhaps lets just say greater Johannesburg is for sale. The AUCTION/SOLD signs in the city are bewildering. Throughout the period 2004 and 2014 give or take, many art spaces have emerged and recessed, migrated and transformed in Johannesburg. Some are visible on the web, some in people’s memories. Few in print. My Making Space article in ‘COMPENDIUM’ (2013) aimed to collate in one space a hit-list of art spaces in Johannesburg. It kind of missed and that’s the problem with roll-calls…