Ernest Cole Award 2022/23 Mentor: Lebohang Kganye

Photo: is pleased to announce Lebohang Kganye as the Mentor of the ECA recipient Mothloki Nono.

Lebohang Kganye was born in 1990 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she currently lives and works.

Although primarily a photographer, her interest in the materiality of photography is ongoing and explored in myriad ways, through her use of the sculptural, performative, theatrical

and the moving image. Kganye’s work has explored themes of personal history and ancestry whilst resonating with the history of South Africa and apartheid, by incorporating the archival and performative into a practice that centres storytelling and memory as it plays itself out in the familial experience. While her work may resonate with a particularly South African experience, it critically engages with oral tradition as form and memory, as a tangible source material. Kganye uses mainly her family archive to explore and re-enact notions of home and belonging, she employs narrative to tell stories of home, refuge, family and identity.

Lebohang Kganye received her introduction to photography at the Market Photo Workshop,

in Johannesburg, in 2009 and completed the Advanced Photography Programme in 2011. She obtained a Diploma in Fine Arts from the University of Johannesburg in 2014

and is currently doing her Masters in Fine Arts at the Witwatersrand University.

Notable recent awards include the Foam Paul Huf Award 2022, Grand Prix Images Vevey

2021/22, Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, 2020, Camera Austria Award, 2019.