Photographer: Justin Keene

Open Call: The Portrait Project

This image forms part of a project in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, that uses photography and formal structures of image-making to explore themes of citizenship and place-related identity in post-apartheid South Africa. The work confronts the ethics of viewership as a way of questioning our collective participation in the production of the post-colony. Justin’s focus on the youth of Mitchells Plain challenges mainstream media portrayals of the area to create an intimate social dialogue and renewed visual economy after a history of documentary realism in the country.

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South Africa