I am a mature documentary photographer. 

I refer to W Eugene Smith’s quote “…and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the years, with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future – causing them caution and remembrance and realization.”

My lens expresses a love of life and celebrates the individual.
And, at once, questions the status quo.

I am a strong advocate for equal rights and have always been an activist for social justice, the rights of the vulnerable and black empowerment in South Africa. My work gives a space for each individual to assert themselves and their presence in the world

 

Photography functions like poetry, navigating beauty, tension, dissonance and tragedy effortlessly.

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EXHIBITIONS

 

2023

Sunny Side Up, Group exhibition, Graham Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa

Group Exhibition, “Where we live”, SouthxSouthEast gallery, USA

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2022
Group Exhibition “New Day”, Graham Contemporary, Johannesbnurg
Solo exhibition “Remains of the Visible”, Nelson Mandela University
Bird St gallery, Gqeberha.
Solo exhibition, “We Should All Be Feminists”, GFI gallery, Gqeberha
Group exhibition “The Collection of the City 2022”, Nelson Mandela
Metropolitan Art Museum, Gqeberha. (The work purchased by the
Museum permanent collection)
Group exhibition, “Mix Tape”, Artec, Gqeberha
Group exhibition, “103rd Annual Exhibition” Artec, Gqeberha
Group exhibition, “Its a Dog’s life”, curated by Elizabeth Avedon, USA

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2021
Group exhibition, Sasol New Signatures finalist, Gauteng
Group exhibition, Africa Photo Awards finalist, Gauteng
Group exhibition, Mix Tape, Artec , Gqeberha
Group exhibition, “Essential Water”, Photoplace Gallery, USA
Group Exhibition, “Mothers”, SouthxSouthEast gallery, USA
Finalist exhibition “Home from Home” Life Framer. curated by Marion
Tande, Museum of Modern Art, USA.

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2019
Group staff/student exhibition Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha
Group staff exhibition Bird Street Art Gallery, Gqeberha

 

2007
Group postgraduate exhibition, The Red Location Museum, Gqeberha

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My fine art documentary photographic work has been purchased for private collections in Cape Town, Gqeberha and Gauteng South Africa, Belgium, Australia, Amsterdam, London, New York, Virginia, Florida and Colorado, USA.

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I am profoundly interested in my photographic work as a tool for social change. Until recently, I worked as a Visual Arts lecturer at the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. I completed my Masters in 2016 and am undertaking a Doctorate. This body of work has been photographed in my immediate shifting environments, in individual's homes and in the game reserves of Southern Africa.  Alongside, I have done award-winning design work for environmental and social non-governmental organisations as part of my contribution to the world.

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Email me at margot@mweb.co.za