Africa
Media Online presents World Press Photo Exhibition 2017 and Docufest Africa -
presentations by leading photographers.
Africa
Media Online has established a strong presence at the Hilton Arts Festival this
year, hosting both the World Press Photo Exhibition 2017 and nine presentations
by some of South Africa’s foremost documentary photographers and curators of
significant archives, under the banner of DocuFest Africa.
The
second edition of DocuFest Africa will be run at the Hilton Arts Festival.
DocuFest Africa is a visual storytelling festival, presenting to the public
important African documentary projects and the curation of significant African
archives.
“In our
work at Africa Media Online of running a picture library and digitising
historic collections we are often coming across collections and work that
should be seen by a wide audience. DocuFest Africa provides the opportunity for
that. The interface between those recording history (the media – photographers,
filmmakers and journalists) and those who become the custodians of history
(heritage professionals – archivists, musicologists and librarians) we believe
will inspire enduring documentary practice and is an interaction that the
Festival seeks to facilitate,” says David Larsen, founder and Managing Director
of Africa Media Online.
This
year DocuFest Africa will be run in conjunction with the World Press Photo
Exhibition 2017. Both will be held in the Centenary Centre at Hilton College.
The World Press Photo Exhibition 2017 will be on display in the Raymond Slater
Library and DocuFest Africa will be held in Lecture Theatre A.
A ticket
to the World Press Photo Exhibition includes entrance into any of the nine
DocuFest Africa presentations which present the work of leading South African
photographers and curators. The line-up includes: Jodi Bieber a multiple award
winning South African photographer who won the overall World Press Photo of the
Year Award in 2011; Paul Weinberg, co-founder of the famous Afrapix photo
agency that documented life under apartheid so extensively; and Andre Odendaal
historian and former CEO of Robben Island and CEO of the Western Cape Cricket
Union who has been writing the history of non-racial cricket in South Africa.
The presentations will take a form of a talk and visual presentation of the
work for 30-40 minutes by the photographer or curator and then there will be 20
minutes of interaction with the presenter. Be aware that there are only 100
seats in the lecture theatre and entry will be on a first come first serve
basis.
The
photographers highlighted at the festival are: Masixole Feni (Fri 15 at 17h30);
Matt Kay (Fri 15 at 19h30); Ian Bruce Huntley and Chris Albertyn (Sat 16 at
10h00); Jodi Bieber (Sat 16 at 13h00); Siona O’Connell (Sat 16 at 16h00); Peter
McKenzie (Sat 16 at 17h15); Paul Weinberg (Sat 16 at 18h30); Andre Odendaal
(Sun 17 at 10h00) and Gille De Vlieg (Sun 17 at 13h00). All photographers will
be present to talk about their work.
The
World Press Photo Exhibition brings global audiences the very best of
photojournalism and visual storytelling taken by the world’s foremost
professional press, news and documentary photographers. The images on display
are carefully chosen by specialist juries internationally – more than five
thousand professional photographers entered more than 80,000 images. The best
of the best will be on display for the World Press Photo Exhibition 2017 in the
Raymond Slater Library. The Contest is a massive undertaking and the
not-for-profit World Press Photo Foundation is able to achieve this, every
year, because it receives support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery and is
sponsored worldwide by Canon.
Tickets
to the World Press Photo Exhibition 2017 and consequently to any and all of the
DocuFest Africa presentations will be sold on the landing of the staircase
leading up to the Raymond Slater Library. Being linked events, a ticket to the
World Press Photo Exhibition 2017 grants the ticket holder entry to all of the
DocuFest Africa presentations.
Tickets R120
(R65 children under 16 and pensioners with a pensioners card) can also be
purchased ahead of the event online, or at the door. (R40 for school groups of
over 10 scholars).
The
festival would not be possible without the generous support of Hilton College,
Tiso Black Star, Grindrod Bank, Black Coffee, DWR, PWC, Bidvest Car Rental,
Indwe Risk Services, Assitej South Africa, Loud Crowd, Sappi, Redlands Hotel,
Zultrans, KZN Dept of Arts & Culture, BASA, Castle Lite, Maritzburg Sun,
Caxton.
For more
information visit http://www.hiltonfestival.co.za/ or like the Facebook page,
Hilton Arts Festival. Follow on Twitter @HiltonFest, Instagram or download the
free APP Hilton Arts Festival for both Android and IOS.
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