Thabiso sekgala biography sample

“My work is the culmination of the exploration of memory, place and interrelated self-imagining”, stated the late South African photographer Thabiso Sekgala in 2013.

Thabiso sekgala biography sample

“I am inspired by looking at human experience whether lived or imagined. Images capture our history, who we are, our presence and absence”. Growing up in the township of KwaNdebele, created during Apartheid to house black population, Sekgala got interested in portraying the everyday life, the people and the landscapes that surrounded him to explore notions of identity, belonging, home, and freedom.

Until October 6, London’s Hayward Gallery is hosting the artist’s first solo show in the United Kingdom, titled Here Is Elsewhere.

Born in 1981, Sekgala experienced the first democratic elections of South Africa at the age of 13.

As part of the ‘born-free’ generation, his teenage years, those more important in terms of self-discovery, self-exploration and self-def