Currently running at artSPACE durban is Lights, Camera, Fire..., an Afrapix
exhibition of photographs by Cedric Nunn, Rafs Mayet and Deseni Soobben.
All three photographers were active with
Afrapix in the 80’s. This exhibition – far from being a comprehensive overview
of the important role Afrapix played in communicating and archiving key years
in South Africa’s transition – is more of a selection of images by the three
photographers combining images not covered by the mainstream media of the day.
Interspersed with the social commentary are personal photographs by the three
photographers. The exhibition is both a personal and the political narrative of
a South African prior to the first democratic general elections.
Afrapix was a national collective of
progressive photographers. They had a KZN office in Omar Badsha’s darkroom in
Good Hope Centre in Queen / Denis Hurley Street.
Lights,
Camera, Fire... runs until October 26. artSPACE is
in 3 Millar Road; alongside the Waste Centre off Umgeni Road. Telephone 031 312
0793. Gallery hours: Monday to Friday 09h00 to17h00, Saturday and Public
Holidays 09h00 to 14h00.
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