Jabulani Dhlamini & Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo | iHubo: Nkosi Sikelela
Goodman Gallery presents iHubo: Nkosi Sikelela, an exhibition of new work by Jabulani Dhlamini and Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo whose photographic practices converge on themes relating to collective trauma and generational memory in South Africa.
Dhlamini is one of South Africa’s most recognised documentary photographers. His approach to landscape and portrait photography involves capturing the everyday lives of people on society’s margins. Dhlamini, ten years Hlatshwayo’s senior, has mentored the young photographer for seven years, alongside curator John Fleetwood.
In Hlatshwayo’s developing practice, he uses his family-run tavern in Lawley, Johannesburg as a makeshift studio space in which to set up his images to explore first-hand and generational experiences of trauma.
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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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