Jabulani Dhlamini 'the everyday waiting'
the everyday waiting comprises a selection of photographs taken by emerging South African photographer Jabulani Dhlamini during the past four months of national lockdown in South Africa.
This photographic essay extends on the emerging photographer’s characteristically contemplative approach to documentary photography, looking at the psychological impact of COVID-19 on South Africans living in confined spaces in the photographer’s community, Soweto.
According to a recent article in the British Journal of Photography about this lockdown series, “Jabulani Dhlamini is drawn to peripheries. He avoids the epicentre of an event or situation and turns to its fringes: exploring impacts and effects that would otherwise remain unknown.”
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Jabulani Dhlamini
Jabulani Dhlamini (b. 1983, Warden, South Africa) is a documentary photographer whose practice reflects on his upbringing in the post-apartheid era alongside the experiences of local South African communities. Dhlamini’s most celebrated bodies of work have focused on key moments in South African history, such as Recaptured which looks at cross-generational recollections of the Sharpeville Massacre, and Isisekelo which documents the familial impact of land dispossession and iQhawekazi, which mapped the shifting legacy of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at the time of her death in 2018.
Solo exhibitions include: Casa/iKhaya Lami, Mitre Gallery, Brazil (2023); Isisekelo, Goodman Gallery Johannesburg (2019); Recaptured, Goodman Gallery Cape Town (2016); uMama, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg (2012). Group exhibitions: Inganekwane, North West University Gallery, South Africa (2022); iHubo – Whispers, PhotoSaintGermain festival, France (2022); Side to Side Johannesburg, La Permanence Photographique, France (2022); and A Different Now is Close Enough to Exhale on You, Umhlabathi Collective Gallery, South Africa (2022); Five Photographers. A tribute to David Goldblatt, Gerard Sekoto Gallery, French Institute of South Africa and the Alliance Française of Johannesburg. Dhlamini is an alumni fellow of the Edward Ruiz Mentorship programme and the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg.
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