This year visitors can look forward to the added extras that come with attending the fair in person: parties, talks, hosted debates, a bookshop and a space to hang out.
More than 98 local and international exhibitors from 20 different countries, including 17 first-time participants, will be taking part in the ninth edition of
‘Pictures From the Inside’: The power of the thinking photograph
The rise of digital photography and social media has caused the commercial photography market to be flooded; the era of the “instant” photographer has also contributed to this situation. The increasing influence of material, celebrity and capitalist culture positions digital photography as a somewhat glamorous and profitable career option.
Yet, despite the popularity of the medium, there is a persistent lack of seriousness about what this particular moment presents for us collectively, against the violent and exploitative history of photography on our continent.
Untitled (Rharha Nembhard)
With the increasing popularity of the medium comes a deeper responsibility towards critical consideration of the ways in which society is shaped and governed by photographic imagery. The eye is the second-most complex organ in the human body (after the brain), hence the social study of the interconnection between these tw