Hereford celebrates African photography

The work of three photographers gives a fresh insight into life in South Africa

Andrew Tshabangus work is a response to the negative and sometimes violent images of black people that he has seen in the media. He is keen to portray other aspects of township life that and not to perpetuate the usual stereotypes of black South Africans. His response has been to develop a long-term project on back. Andrew Tshabangu was born in 1966 in Soweto. He studied journalism and has taught at the Market Photo Workshop

Rene-Paul Savignan is from Reunion Island, situated to the west of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. He became interested in photography when he managed a one-hour photo lab on the Island, and has since gone on to develop his own photographic projects. His work looks at the religious groups that pray and sing on the train journey between Soweto and Johannesburg.
Over a period of 18 months, the Cape Town based photographer Stan Engelbrecht travelled across South Africa knocking on the front doors of family homes and asking people about their favourite recipes. In 2005 the completed project was turned into a book African Salad that has been a big success in South Africa. For the first time African Salad has been produced into an exhibition especially for the Hereford Photography Festival.

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Pic: Image from Messina/Musina. Photographer Pieter Hugo. Charles Mokwena, a member of the Zion Christian Church, in this bedroom

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