letters from JOZI
audio postings from Joburg photographers
PHOTO BY: ITUMELENG ENGLISH
http://www.archive.org/details/audio-photo-graphics
images: radio continental drift
This page gathers audio recordings and images resulting from a one-week audio workshop for photographers held for the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Programme at the Market-Photo-Workshop (MPW) in Johannesburg in February 2009.
This page will also continue to serve as a mailbox for correspondence of this Joburg group of photographers.
The idea and trajectory of the workshop was to research with the participants and within their practice a variety of methods and concepts how audio recordings may be used by photographers in the process and/ or presentation of their work. The attached text documents give details on the programme and outcomes of this audio-photographic laboratory.
– workshop outline and programme day-by-day mpw-feb-audio-workshop2,
– general outline mpw-feb-audio-workshop
– report and outcomes report-of-workshop-outcomes
– invite to presentation audio-workshop-28022009
During the one week of shared research and debates something like a theme developed throughout the individual projects which could be summarised as:
TRANSIT AND INTIMACY
AV-micro-documentaries of urban subjects attached in forms of transitory belonging to ‘their’ environments and objects
images: MPW
Photojournalism and documentary photography project list.
Project Name
|
Artist |
Key words |
Tools |
Notes |
Bridging the day. |
Henrika Theron |
Architecture, city, movement, people, time, Nelson Mandela |
Camera, audio devices: hard drive recorder + bin-aural mic, (dicta-phone, cell phone), audio editing software |
Movements of people over the Mandela Bridge, tempo, routine, turf politics, security guards. ‘New’ Jozi? |
In transit to Jo’bag |
Mandisa M. Ledwaba |
Journeys, trains, faith, music, conversation, communities of commuters. |
Mini-disc recorder + external mic, camera, pen and paper, audio editing software. |
Focus on regular church services in trains, number of people who journey to the city daily, new forms of belonging in transit. |
Self- Empowerment. |
Itumeleng English |
Ordinary people, extra ordinary effort, optimism, hope, despair. |
Text (pen & paper), Voice recorder, Camera |
Street images of ordinary people engaged in self-empowerment stratergies, audio sound scapes/ interviews with such. |
Hip-Hop Culture |
Sibulele Kanango & Bethule Nkiwane |
Main stream hip-hop culture, gender,. identity |
Camera, pen and paper and voice recorder. |
Explore hip-hop culture through interviews and Images; gather contrasting perspectives on the subject. |
Sound mind Expression. |
Mokone L. Mofokeng |
Street Kulture, indigenous wisdom, urban lifetyle, commuting, determination. |
Cassette tape recorder, pen, paper, camera, ‘live editing’. |
Exploring multiple dimensions of meaning and belonging, music spontaneous art culture youth. |
Do I really exist? |
Karabo P. Mooki |
Identity, subversion, anti authority/anarchist, conformity. Othering. |
Camera, Voice recorder, pen paper, photocopies |
Exploring commodity culture and attempted counter cultures. submission and socialisation. |
Mabuza’s Cake Project |
Muzumani P. Hlungwani & Tawedzerwa |
Motswaledi settlement, local inventiveness, poverty, survival. |
Voice recorder, camera, pen and paper, computer. |
Zoom in on efforts of one man who refuses to be overwhelmed by his challenging circumstances, local ‘indigenous’ bakery in the back roads of Soweto. Interview in Shangaan with explanatory notes. |
The Trolleys |
Madoda L. Mkhobeni |
Trolley pushers, surviving, migrants, territory, precarious existence. Language, attitudes, city. |
Voice recorder, camera, pen paper. |
Making a living in a hostile environment, creating friendships, constructing meaning, attachment to objects in a network of urban waste. |
We are also human |
Wanjiku C. Kaminju and Siphathokuhle Moyo |
Memory, Joy, authority, security |
Camera (digital), Voice recorder, Pen and paper, audio editing software. |
Bringing out the human side of police officers, favourite memories, interviews and visuals. |
Self-portrait
|
Tebogo Moabi |
Friendship, youth, identity, politics, time and memory |
Camera, voice-recorder |
Friendship and its sphere/ traces of influence (on the photographer himself) |