Exhibitions - Arddangosfeydd

Santu Mofokeng

Santu Mofokeng is one of South Africa's leading photographers. He began his career as a street photographer in Soweto and through the 1980's worked on the documentary coverage of the anti-Apartheid struggle. At the end of the decade, Mofokeng decided to leave the field of overtly political photojournalism and to engage in the representation of everyday life in South Africa’s townships.With subjects as visually diverse as religious rituals, images of memorial sites and historical activity, or desolate landscapes, Mofokeng subverts the comfort zones of racial and cultural memory, and questions the politics of representation and the objectifying gaze of the photographer.

Produced by Autograph ABP in partnership with IZIKO, South African National Gallery

Santu Mofokeng yw un o brif ffotograffwyr De Affrica. Dechreuodd ar ei yrfa fel ffotograffydd stryd yn Soweto a thrwy’r 1980au gweithiodd ar ddogfennu’r frwydr wrth-Apartheid. Ar ddiwedd y degawd penderfynodd ymadael â maes ffotonewyddiaduraeth wleidyddol a chanolbwyntio ar gofnodi bywyd bob dydd yn nhreflannau De Affrica. Gyda gwrthrychau mor wahanol yn weledol â defodau crefyddol a delweddau o hunaniaethau duon neu dirweddau diffaith, mae Mofokeng yn tanseilio diogelwch y cof hiliol a diwylliannol ac yn cwestiynu pynciau gwleidyddol drwy lygad y ffotograffydd.

Free Talk in the Cinema Thurs 18 Feb at 6pm.