South African, 1981–2014
Thabiso Sekgala is a graduate of the Johannesburg Market Photo Workshop. His contemplative portraits of youth in the former Homelands of South Africa bear witness to the artist’s uncanny feel for the figure in the landscape. Through a combination of portraiture and landscape photography, Sekgala explores notions of collective memory, legacies of spatial politics, and conceptions of home. The artist’s softly colored images evoke tenderness, even nostalgia, yet speak of their subjects with an unflinching directness. With a constant, compassionate attention to color, light, form, and pattern, he renders careful, contemplative portraits of youth in the former Homelands of South Africa. Approaching the figure and the land with utmost respect and dignity, Sekgala’s images tell stories beyond apartheid, visual clichés, and social prejudices.
Carwash under the billboard, Marapyane, former Bophuthatswana
Directory, stone and a throne
Hamaskraal, former Bophuthatswana
Jane Nkuna, Loding, former Kwandebele
Johanna Mthombeni, Loding, former Kwandebele
Kgalabatsane, former Bophuthatswana
Mawilli Thubane, Loding, former Kwandebele
Nklele Machika or Mary Koketse, Sehoko, former Bophuthatswa
Pankop, Passage dividing primary and high school, former Kwandebele
Road divide Guateng and Northwest Province, Hamaskraal, former Bophuthatswana
Samuel or Thulani Msiza, Loding, former Kwandebele
Sitting on koppie during the last days of the strike, Marikana
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