Cape Town Photography Festival

See individual event listings. # are FREE events, and $ are Ticketed

Wed 3 Sept (6 - 8pm) Simon’s Town Museum

#EXHIBITION OPENING and meet the artist. Peter Glendinning: Attached to the Soil

Thurs 4 Sept (6 - 8pm) City Centre and Kalk Bay galleries

#EXHIBITION OPENINGS. All participating galleries will be open on the night of First Thursday

Fri 5 Sept (1 - 2pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$TALK. Impact of AI on contemporary photography

Suok-Won Yoon, South Korean academic and acclaimed photographer/curator and Boris Eldagsen, controversial Berlin based photo and video artist, in a talk about the impact of AI on contemporary photography

Fri 5 Sept (3 - 5pm) Central Library

#FESTIVAL CATALOGUE LAUNCH and EXHIBITION OPENINGS: Roger Ballen: Roger Ballen’s Johannesburg. Suok-Won Yoon: The Entity outside the Boundaries. Gabrielle Kannemeyer: Perde Mense. Senzeni Marasela: Madoli Wam. Student exhibition: Manye / Now / Ima.Curated by Naoya Yoshikawa, Ashley Walters and Dr Waldemar Bussiahn. Lindeka Qampi and Gabrielle Kannemeyer are the facilitators behind Through Kids Eyes featuring children's photography. Some artists and curators will be present.

Fri 5 Sept (6pm – late) Bijou Project Space, Observatory

#EXHIBITION OPENING and meet the artist. Sean Wilson: Immortal Impressions

Sat 6 Sept (10 – 11:30am) Print Art Studio. Observatory

$PRACTICAL WORKSHOP. Master printer, Neil Williamson. Demonstrations of cutting-edge printing techniques

Sat Sept 6 (11 - 12pm) Aspire Art

#WALKABOUT with Suok-Won Yoon, the curator of Future Heritage exhibition

Sat 6 Sept (12 - 1pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$TALK. Photography: Basics and Beyond

Prof Peter Glendinning (Michigan State University, USA) lecture is geared to everyone from beginner to

advanced amateur. He is the principal author and lecturer for the 5-course series which launched

on the Coursera platform in 2016.

Sat 6 Sept (2 - 3pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$TALK. Troubadour Record label and the history of marabi music

Rob Allingham, renowned music historian and archivist at Gallo Record Company talks about the history of

Troubadour Records, a label specialising in marabi music.

Sat 6 Sept (3- 5 pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

#OFFICIAL FESTIVAL OPENING EVENT. By invitation

Sat 6 Sept (6 - 8pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$LIVE MUSIC. Hanepoot Brass Band. Led by acclaimed trombonist Jannie "Hanepoot" van Tonder, this band plays a wide range of solid grooves and wild improvisations.

Tues 9 Sept (1 - 2pm) WORLDART Gallery

#MEET THE ARTIST. Naoya Yoshikawa: Family Album

Tues 9 Sept (1 - 2PM) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$TALK. Reflections in a Soundless Room

Kalahari Surfer, Warrick Sony presents some thoughts around the "silent room" as a cultural, architectural, spiritual and repressive phenomenon.

Tues 9 Sept (6 - 8pm) WORLDART Gallery

#EXHIBITION OPENING. Family Album. Naoya Yoshikawa. By invitation only

Wed 10 Sept (1 - 2pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$TALK. Collaborations with Margaret Courtney-Clarke

Emeritus Associate Professor Virginia MacKenny talks about her collaborations with, and the practice of the award-winning Namibian photographer, Margaret Courtney-Clarke.

Wed 10 Sept (6pm - 7pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$TALK. Talking Retrospectively

Globally recognised photographer Roger Ballen shares insights into his five decade-long practice which reaches beyond conventional photography.

Thurs 10 Sept (1 - 2pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$TALK. The Veil as a Mirror of Becoming

Moena Weiss is a clinical psychologist, photographer and PhD candidate. This talk is linked to the exhibition, Until all Birds can Sing

explores queerness in South Africa.

Thurs 11 Sept (6 - 8pm) Sanlam Gallery, Bellville

#EXHIBITION OPENING. Looking In: Jurgen Schadeberg and Uitsig: Ashley Walters. Opening Speech by Frank Kilbourn

Fri 12 Sept (1 - 2pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$TALK. Matsuli Music

Record producer, Chris Albertyn talks about Matsuli Records which specialises in re-issuing rare and out of

print South African music on vinyl.

Sat 13 Sept (10 – 4pm) Fairweather House. 31 Francis Road, Woodstock

#OPEN STUDIO. Rare opportunity to step into the engine room of renowned photographer, Nicky Newman.

Sat 13 Sept (10 – 11am) The Bijou Project Space, 178 Lower Main Road, Observatory

#WALKABOUT. Discussion of Immortal Impressions by photographer Sean Wilson, this body of work explores our problematic relationship with screens by co-opting motifs from Victorian spiritualist photography and using broken screens, instead of traditional glass plates, as substrates for direct positive photographs made with the Wet Plate Collodion process.

Sat 13 Sept (12 – 1pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$TALK. Light on White Paper: Photography and the Photo Book

Darryl Earl David is a lecturer of Afrikaans Education at University of the Western Cape, a writer and a freelance travel journalist. He’s also a serial founder of literary festivals and other cultural enterprises.

Sat 13 Sept (2 - 3:30pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

#PANEL DISCUSSION. The Case for a Dedicated Music Photography Archive. Dr Geraldine Frieslaar, Chris Albertyn, Rafs Mayet and Paul Weinberg. Moderated by Andre Le Roux (ConcertsSA).

Mon 15 Sept (1 - 2pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$TALK. Photography and the writing of JM Coetzee

Prof Hermann Wittenberg is a South African literary scholar known for his work on J.M. Coetzee. JM Coetzee PHOTOGRAPHS FROM BOYHOOD is edited and introduced by Wittenberg.

Tue 16 Sept (1 - 2pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$TALK. The legacy and future of photography as an indispensable act of bearing witness

Kuba Freter (Germany) and Nonzuzo Gxekwa. Moderated by Ally Martinez

Wed 17 Sept (1 - 2pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$TALK. Picturing Dreams: Visual encounters and historiography in the domestic interior

Dr Geraldine Frieslaar is the Chief Archivist of the New Archival Visions Programme at the Centre for Humanities Research.

Thurs 18 Sept (1 - 2pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$TALK. On ‘the Cape’ in South African Jazz

Music Historian Dr Valmont Layne presents "On ‘the Cape’ in South African Jazz", a reflection on the role of the Cape as a subject in historical accounts of South African Jazz and popular memory since the 19th century.

Thurs 18 Sept (1 - 2pm) Iziko SA National Gallery

#WALK-ABOUT. Motherhood: Paradox and Duality

Join Andrea Lewis (curator), Nomusa Makhubu, Svea Josephy, Jean Brundrit and Haneem Christian as they lead visitors around this absorbing exhibition. Tea and coffee will be served.

Fri 19 Sept (1 - 2pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$TALK. The afterlives and other lives of news photographs: a case study

Jo-Anne Duggan is a heritage practitioner and PhD candidate who has worked extensively in museums and archives.

Sat 20 Sept (10-11:30am) Print Art Studio. Observatory

$PRACTICAL WORKSHOP. with master printer Neil Williamson. Demonstrations of cutting-edge printing techniques

Sat 20 Sept (1 - 2pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$TALK. Reanimating photographic archives in contemporary media

Rita Potenza, with thirty years of experience, is in a league of her own as a highly respected professional picture researcher.

Sat 20 Sept (2 - 3pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

#PANEL DISCUSSION. Music Journalism has Died: Long Live Music Journalism

Fred de Vries, Tecla Ciolfi, Davidé Grozzo (International Music Council, Paris), Danie Marais, Atiyyah Khan and Sam Mathe. Moderated by Carsten Rasch

Sat 20 Sept (6 – 8pm) 6 Spin Street Gallery

$LIVE MUSIC. Was Daar Band

An eclectic band born from the rich tapestry of its members' diverse backgrounds. Renowned photographer Guy Tillim, acclaimed dancer Hannah Lowenthal, and celebrated author Rian Malan. They bring an unmatched fusion of creativity to their performance.

Wed 24 Sept (7 - 8pm) Artvark Gallery. Kalk Bay

$IMMERSIVE HAPPENING: EYE GAZE...MIND WANDERS

Filmmaker, artist and art collector Linda Notelovitz takes her viewers on a visual journey through projections (and disruptions) to experience the act of true seeing.

Sat 27 Sept (12 - 1pm) WORLDART Gallery

$TALK. News / Reportage Photography

Nic Bothma, Omar Badsha & Brenton Geach

"As photojournalists we are the ones who go to the back of a cave with a torch and come back to tell the rest of the tribe what we saw" - Nic Bothma

Sat 27 Sept (2 - 3pm) WORLDART Gallery

#TALK. Photography as a Career – Six different option

Sam Reinders, Nomusa Makhubu, Inge Prins, Marike Herselman, Gabrielle Kannemeyer & Monique Pelser

Moderated by Heidi Erdmann

Sat 27 (7 - 8pm) Corner of Bree & Short Market Streets

#PROJECTION Inner City Project[ed]

The closing event is a street intervention featuring a large-scale wall projection - a visual retrospective of the festival. Casting its highlights back into the public space. This event is presented by Mission for Inner City Cape Town.