One of Photo:’s projects, Intimacy and Resistance is included as a contribution to the publication ‘Talking about Photobooks’ published by Photobook Week Aarhus and FW:Books in Oct’24.

‘Talking about Photobooks’ gives an insight in the history of the photobook medium, its relationship to architecture and artificial intelligence, and the many roles the photobook can play in art and society, in the centre and the periphery.

Ingrid Pollard is the Hasselblad Award laureate 2024. The ceremony was held on 11 October in Gothenburg, Sweden. Pollard’s four-decade exploration of race, identity, and colonial history is currently being exhibited at the Hasselblad Centre. John Fleetwood, director of Photo:, was the jury chair.

Co-conspirators: Solidarity in Practice is a conversation aimed at gaining a better understanding of the conditions that enable mutual support between small-scale arts organisations and collectives. In gathering practitioners from organisations across Southern and East Africa, this event imagines a far-reaching arts community whose makeshift and resourceful modes of working are reinforced by collaboration and shared knowledge.

John Fleetwood presents a course exploring South African photography and its contribution to global dialogues on culture, identity and social justice in a four-week online course, through The Photographers’ Gallery.

Photo: hosted 10:10 on 10 July 2024. 10:10 is a presentation and feedback format session in which photographers are invited to present their work followed by feedback from peers and invited respondents. 10:10 aims to generate feedback to photographers on their ongoing and existing work and engage with work created under differing photographic practices.

Photo: hosted another 10:10 on 2 May 2024. Participants were Kristoff Tizora, Marika Du Toit, Lillian Benny, Bonga Ndlovu, Ahmed Khirelsed, Visule Kabunda, Coenraad Torlage, Farren Van Wyk, Hazel Mphande, Thando Nxumalo. Particpants were joined by respondents John Fleetwood and Dana Whabira.

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Photo: hosted another 10:10 on 15 August 2023.

Along with Photo: director John Fleetwood we were also joined by two guest photographers, Jackson Tshisekedi and Arsène Mpiana from Académie des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa, DRC. The 10:10 was hosted by Market Photo Workshop.

Photo: facilitated a project at Académie des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa which entailed a series of training workshops and networking meetings, online support and feedback encounters which took place over a period of more than eight months, partnering with the Goethe Institut Kinshasa.

Photo: is pleased to announce the exhibition of the Ernest Cole Award recipient 22/23. The Award acknowledges Ernest Cole’s important role in South African photography. Motlhoki Nono is the recipient.

On 5 April, Photo: organised the second critique session of ECA recipient Mothloki Nono. Invited respondents were Nomusa Makhubu and Khanyisile Mbongwa. Also in attendance was Nono’s mentor Lebohang Kganye, John Fleetwood and Jodie Pather.

Following Lebohang Kganye’s exhibition, Ternary Memories of Yesterday, Galleri Image hosted a seminar which focused on the works in the exhibition as well as on the individual practices of Kganye and Haarløv Johnsen.

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The Centres of Learning for Photography in Africa (CLPA) hosted a Mentorship Session on 22 April in which 8 participants presented their work and received feedback.

Photo: hosted another 10:10 on 19 April 2023.

10:10 is a presentation and feedback format. 10 photographers are given no more than ten minutes to present their work, followed by 15 minutes of feedback from peers and invited responders. 10:10 hopes to generate feedback to photographers on their ongoing and existing work and engage with work created under differing photographic practices. Along with Photo: director John Fleetwood, Tammy Langtry was the invited respondent. We were also joined by two guest photographers, Jackson Tshisekedi and Arsène Mpiana from Académie des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa, DRC.

On 8 Feb, Photo: organised the first critique session of ECA recipient Mothloki Nono. Invited respondents were Danai Mupotsa and Joni Brenner. Also in attendance was Nono’s mentor Lebohang Kganye, John Fleetwood and Jodie Pather. The crit took place at the 1989 Gallery at the Market Photo Workshop.

Gallery Image presented the exhibition  Concurrent  with works by the South African artists Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo and Jansen van Staden and curated by John Fleetwood. Concurrent  is an exhibition of two South African photographers' work: Jansen van Staden and Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo. Their work deals with the complexities of family relationships and places, legacies of violence, and the possibilities of transformation that photography holds. It bears the entanglement of histories of Apartheid and colonialism in the present, but also about practices of transition and countering.  

Jansen Van Staden and Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo’s upcoming exhibition Concurrent, curated by John Fleetwood, will be opening at Galleri Image in Aarhus, Denmark, 19 August – 9 October 2022.

Motlhoki Nono is the recipient of the Ernest Cole Award 2022.

The Ernest Cole Award 2022 shortlist is Lunathi Mngxuma, Motlhoki Nono, Phumzile Khanyile and Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo.

The Ernest Cole Award 2022 Jury is Berni Searle, Lebohang Kganye and Nandipha Mntambo. The 3-member Jury will look at the nominated and open call submissions to independently select a shortlist of candidates from which a recipient is selected.

“For when a train goes by at speed these passengers look like clothes hanging on a washline“. Lebohang Kganye reflects on the work of Ernest Cole, alongside Santu Mofokeng, and Jo Ractliffe, with specific reference to images of, in or from trains.

Photo: and Photography Education Trust hosted the first 10:10 of 2022 on 14 April. 10:10 is an invitational ice-breaker session which uses a presentation and feedback format.

The Ernest Cole Award 2022 Nomination Panel consists of 6 experienced practitioners that will each nominate 2 photographers. The Nomination Panellists are Dean Hutton, Gabrielle Goliath, Jabulani Dhlamini, Zen Marie, Simon Gush and Ashley Walters.

Simon Gush reflects on the impact Ernest Cole's photography had on his practice, the powerful presence Ernest Cole holds in all his photographs, met by the returned gaze of his subjects.

Submissions for the Ernest Cole Award will open on 3 May 2022 and continue through 6 June 2022.