Mid-Morning Magic
OFM Art Beat - Mike Mzileni's Photographical Archival Journey─── 20:04 Thu, 24 Feb 2022
Mid-Morning Magic's Yolanda Maartens chats to Nkululeko Khumalo about the exhibition; Mike Mzileni A Photographical Archival Journey.
The photographer and Jazz lover MikeMzileni is best known for his iconic portraits and landscape images from the early 1970s to 2000, which depicts South African history through photography
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As we rediscover and celebrate the works of this pioneering Mike Mzile radical photographer of his times. Although the term “PhotoJournalism” was just coined at the time, he was able to redefine photography spaces and place as a black man in society and establish his role as an important forerunner in the industry.
The exhibition is a revolutionary opportunity to reconsider our understanding of South African history.
In this exhibition, the archival photographs, journalists, and intellectuals reclaim their central place in our understanding of a period that laid the foundations for the global early photographs depicted by black photographers. South Africa’s story is truly told through the history of photography.
