(Nthuthuko. Photograph by Osmosisliza)
Niamh Walsh-Vorster is one of six photographers who form part
of the Fotobooth Durban initiative currently seen at the KZNSA.
“We have done a few pop-ups in the various KZN areas and our
next is to happen at The Green Camp Gallery Project for the Conversations with Lovers event,” says
Walsh-Vorster.
Fotobooth is a pop up portraiture project by Durban based
photographers, Busani Gcabashe, Njabulo “Blackcloud” Magubane, Simanga
“Konstant’ Zondo, Lungelo Makhanya, Niamh Walsh-Vorster and osmosisliza,
launched at KZNSA's annual Buzzart event.
This project came into the making through constant
discussions in their collective chats on the subject of “portraiture” as an
archive and description of society. With
this project the fotobooth photographers push the idea of individualistic
representations of people of Durban, offering windows that describe people and
cultures: mutual customs, habits, similarities and differences, at a given
place and time.
Fotobooth’s vision is to activate a community of practice to
push their own boundaries on portraiture.
Fotobooth envisions locating their pop-up studio at various creative
events around Durban, inviting and including other photographers to participate
in the project to build up a body of work and images that document the faces of
Durban city.
At Fotobooth the photographers offer electronic portraits
(in an attempt to support KZNSA's 'Sea Change' initiative - paperless and
pro-eco).
These portraits will carry the Fotobooth stamp and a
signature of the individual photographers’ styles. This is the perfect opportunity for family
Christmas memory, a new Facebook profile pic or just to be part of
documentation of a cities people.
For more information contact Niamh Walsh-Vorster on: 083 716
3827 or visit www.niamhmoon.tumblr.com
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