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Slaghuis II

Slaghuis II

The Market Photo Workshop invites the photography, art and media communities to the first exhibition of 2020 at The Photo Workshop Gallery.

Slaghuis II is a search for what it means to be marked by violence. Slaghuis is an Afrikaans word for a literal place of slaughter and a vernacular expression for a place of violence that had come to identify the tavern where Hlatshwayo grew up. He transforms the familiar spaces of home and tavern into places of making that takes up violence as a visual language. Slaghuis II marks a second chapter in this ongoing body of work, produced as the 2019 Gisèle Wulfsohn Mentorship Recipient of the Market Photo Workshop. Hlatshwayo was mentored by John Fleetwood.

Jack Black’s Beer is an in-kind sponsor of opening nights, professional engagement and professional networking events at the Market Photo Workshop.

Slaghuis II will be open to the public from 28 February at PM until 29 May 2020. Additional public programmes to be announced.

About Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo

Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo (b. 1993) is a photographer based in Johannesburg. He joined Jabulani Dhlamini’s Of Soul and Joy Photography initiative in 2016. In 2018 he completed a year course in the Advance Programme in Photography at the Market Photo Workshop.

Hlatshwayo’s first Slaghuis series won him the 2019 CAP Prize for Contemporary African Photography in Basel, Switzerland. His work has appeared in NICE Magazine 3rd Editions and group exhibitions at Fotomuseum Winterthur, IAF Basel Festival, and Johannesburg’s Turbine Art Fair.

Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo is the Gisèle Wulfsohn Mentorship in Photography Recipient for 2019 and Slaghuis II is his first solo exhibition.

About the Gisèle Wulfsohn Mentorship Award

The Gisèle Wulfsohn Mentorship in Photography has been developed to provide an emerging photographer the infrastructural support to develop a body of work. The mentorship has been created by the family of the late Gisèle Wulfsohn to honour her memory and her work; and is seen as an opportunity to continue her approach and interests in photography. Wulfsohn dedicated her life and photography to awareness, openness and respect; she worked on issues of democracy, HIV/AIDS and positive sexual identities, social inclusion and gender issues, and maintained a commitment to education and social change.

The Gisèle Wulfsohn Mentorship in Photography provides an emerging photographer with a grant to develop a proposed body of work, in conjunction with an identified mentor, thus a mentorship. In addition to the grant the fellowship offers the possibility of a solo-exhibition and a publication to accompany it.

About the Market Photo Workshop

The Market Photo Workshop is a Johannesburg-based school of photography, gallery and resource centre for practicing photographers. Since its establishment in 1989, the school has played an integral role in the training and growth of photographers from South Africa and further afield, while promoting photography through exhibitions, public debates and collaborative projects, especially within marginalized communities. The Market Photo Workshop is a division of The Market Theatre Foundation.

*Market Photo Workshop is the recipient of The Principal Prince Claus Award 2018.

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