letters from JOZI

 

audio postings from Joburg photographers

 

ARMED FORCES 2009

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)