Inspiring the Producers and Custodians of African Media Collections
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2014
Last year I had the privilege of being a judge at the 9th CHIPP Awards in the beautiful lake side city of Hangzhou in China’s eastern Zhejiang province. The China International Press Photo Contest is closely modelled on the World Press Photo contest and certainly has the prize money to match with the equivalent of USD16,000 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2013
Ilan Godfrey has recently published his first book. Focused on the consequences of mining on the South African landscape and its people, I believe Ilan’s “Legacy of the Mine” is an important work for us in South Africa to reflect on the place and the true cost of the mining industry. Ilan was the 2012 Ernest Cole […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2013
Congratulations to Graeme Williams who is the winner of the 2013 Ernest Cole Award. His submission ‘in da city’ explores Johannesburg’s inner city. The announcement on the Ernest Cole Award site says: The study explores Johannesburg’s inner city which has served as a first stop for many new arrivals since its formation as a mining town many […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 29th, 2013
I have just returned from the beautiful city of Hangzhou in China’s eastern Zhejiang province where I had the privilege of being one of 13 judges at the 9th China International Press Photo Contest. And what a contest it was! Over 30,000 images from over 3,000 professional photojournalists around the world were entered in to the competition. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 15th, 2013
It is wonderful to be able to announce that the winner of the World Press Photo Multimedia Award 2012, Elles van Gelder, will be one of the mentors on the two-week multimedia journalism masterclass in April. The Introduction to Multimedia Story Telling: The fundamentals of multimedia journalism masterclass is being run at Michaelhouse in the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 12th, 2013
John Liebenberg’s photography of the apartheid “border wars” in Namibia and Angola is a profound documentation of a period of history. He often ignored the sensorship bans of the apartheid regime and revealed the wars for what they were. A senior photographer now, still plying his trade, John has needed a hip replacement operation for […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 12th, 2013
I met Adolphus Opara in Ghana when he was selected as an All Star participant in the Twenty Ten project. I got to know him even better when he came to South Africa during the 2010 FIFA World Cup as a member of what we called the Dream Team of journalists who created stories throughout […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 12th, 2013
I have recently had some interaction with Johannesburg based Swedish photographer, Eva-Lotta Jansson who is undertaking a valuable project to capture the history of how important photography was for South Africa’s transition to democracy. PhotographyAndDemocracy.com is the output from the project that is only part way through. Eva-Lotta has begun to interview leading photographers in South […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2013
The first edition of DocuFest Africa gets underway in the beautiful setting of Michaelhouse in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands on the weekend of April 6-7, 2013. The festival will run parallel to the Encounters documentary film festival in the same venue. Mostly using the format of projected screenings with questions and answers, the festival is focused […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2013
In November last year when I was down at the Ina-Doxa conference on digital archiving of audio-visual material I was introduced to Lesedi Oluko Moche Festival Director of the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival. Encounters is Africa’s longest running documentary film festival that runs every year in Cape Town and Johannesburg. At the time […]