Published on: 4th Aug 2014
We received an invite to attend the opening ceremony of the Kliptown Photography Project Exhibition in Soweto, South Africa. The opening ceremony took place on 31 July 2014 at 19:30. The invite did not include details to confirm attendance, so we decided to just pitch-up without any prior arrangement.
[ Read more... ]Published on: 10th Jun 2014
The "SAC Beautiful Country" photography exhibition grew from an idea I put forward to Miss Guo Jing, Art Director of Shangtuf Image and Art Club in China, in November 2013. The idea was simply to invite her and a group of photographers to South Africa to show them why we are proudly South Africans. Miss Guo Jing immediately responded with "Only if we do an exhibition together in South Africa". This changed the whole purpose of the invitation: from showing around a few Chinese photographers in South Africa to share the way photographers of South Africa and China experience their respective countries and how they choose to show it to the world through photography.
[ Read more... ]Published on: 22nd Dec 2013
In 2013, the 15th China International Photographic Art Exhibition took place in Lishui City in China's Zhejiang Province and I was invited to be a judge at the judging conference. The judging conference took place at the end of August. This was my first visit to China and I was totally overwhelmed by the hospitality and friendliness of this land and its people. During this visit I definitely made lifelong friends.
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