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Full circle: Sindiso Nyoni’s design commissioned for In The Paint, a global series of artistic collaborations based around basketball in the community. Nyoni worked with the NBA and Hennessy brands on the project

The Portfolio: Sindiso Nyoni talks brands, values and nostalgia

The bulk of Sindiso Nyoni’s work involves brands. Making the concept translate is a tight balancing act

Coming out: The portraits in Brown on Brown: The Colourism Project make it appear as if the subjects are boldly emerging from their darkness. Ravi Naidoo, who took this photograph of herself, says ‘colourism affects how every Indian person thinks about themselves and their sense of worth’

The Portfolio: Ravi Naidoo on starting a conversation about colourism

In creating her photo series, ‘Brown on Brown: The Colourism Project’, Ravi Naidoo realised colourism affects how every Indian person thinks about themselves

Untitled 21 (January 1st, 2020), 2021 (from the ongoing series eBhish’)

The Portfolio: Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose on bringing eBhish’ home to KZN

The artist reflects on the homecoming of his exhibition, and how it interacts with the gallery and its environment

Tableau: Dr Ainehi Edoro, professor of African literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the founder and publisher of literary platform Brittle Paper, hopes the list of 50 Notable African Books will inspire readers to read more books from writers on the continent. (Photo: Nicole Bitonti)

The Portfolio: Celebrating a great year in African writing

Brittle Paper’s 50 Notable African Books is the product of extensive year-round reportage

From the other side: A mine dump on Wemmer Pan Road, Johannesburg South, 2020. The photographer says Joburgers have an affinity for these dumps because, aside from a few natural ridges, the city is pretty flat. Photo: Marc Shoul

The Portfolio: If there is a jol there you will go

For photographer Marc Shoul, nothing is sacred in Joburg

Visual love letter: Tshepiso Moropa used her parents’ marriage as inspiration for her latest collage, titled Til Death Do Us Apart.

The Portfolio: Tshepiso Moropa digs up family treasures

Tshepiso Moropa used her parents’ marriage as inspiration for her latest collage, titled Til Death Do Us Apart

Blankets, Boitumelo Motau

The Portfolio: Boitumelo Motau on capturing a moment

Even in revisiting the space, I can never capture the moment, as if it were sucked into my camera when I pressed the shutter, muses Boitumelo Motau

Freedom fighter: Dulcie September was shot dead outside the ANC offices in Paris in 1988. Her killer has never been identified.

The Portfolio: ‘Murder in Paris’ director Enver Samuel

Thirty-three years since Dulcie September’s assassination, a new documentary hopes to bring her name back into the public consciousness

American rapper Joey Bada$$ performs Temptation at Oppikoppi in 2017. (Photo: Sabelo Mkhabela)

The Portfolio: Sabelo Mkhabela

Sabelo Mkhabela, a ‘writer who can take photos’ tells us about the image he took of American rapper Joey Bada$$ at Oppikoppi in 2017

For the photographer, the Roving Bantu Kitchen, which Sisifso Ntuli co-founded, reminded him of Fela Kuti’s Shrine, hence the decision to title the image the Roving Bantu Shrine. (Photo: Antony Kaminju)

The Portfolio: Antony Kaminju

Antony Kaminju shares his experience of making a photo of the Roving Bantu Kitchen’s Sifiso Ntuli

Bending reality: Untitled (2), from The Profit Corner series, 2016, Mário Macilau

The Portfolio: Mário Macilau

Mozambican photographer Mário Macilau uses performance and play to expand the meaning of his work

Emcee Manelis photographed in Wyebank, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, in November 2018. Photo: Rogan Ward

The Portfolio: Manelis

With a theatre background and a long history as a bandleader, Durban-based emcee Manelis is always thinking about how his messaging can be translated visually

The Companions, Barkly West, Northern Cape, South Africa, June 2015, was taken on a class trip to the region. (Photo: Saaiqa)

The Portfolio: Saaiqa

Photographer Saaiqa shares the story of how she captured this picture that reflects both the socioeconomic realities of our country and simple companionship

Author and entrepreneur Nthikeng Mohlele has also curated the Polokwane Literary Festival (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

The Portfolio: Nthikeng Mohlele

A veteran author and part-time festival director, Nthikeng Mohlele can attest to the respective experiences being irreconcilable. Or are they?

This photo, taken in Mahikeng, is part of Kamogelo Lebotse’s Documenting Lockdown series.

Kamogelo Lebotse: The Portfolio

Photographer Kamogelo Lebotse has been documenting the effects of the national lockdown on the people of Mahikeng

Model 23, Third body (2020) is part of Jamal Nxedlana’s Dangerous Bodies exhibition with the Sulger-Buel Gallery. (Jamal Nxedlana)

The Portfolio: Jamal Nxedlana

The national lockdown provided photographer Jamal Nxedlana with a chance to push the boundaries of his practice as he transitioned into a new creative cycle

Month End, acrylic on paper, 2019 by Levy Pooe.

The Portfolio: Levy Pooe

Artist Levy Pooe conceptualises his work as ‘a social diary of being black in the city’

Torch of hope: The Vroue Aksie Ontwikkelings Projekte Drop-in Centre, Askham, Northern Cape. Tommy Busakhwe, Circles of Life (2019).

The Portfolio: Tommy Busakhwe

Photographer Tommy Busakhwe, a participant in the Communities of the Kalahari Advocacy Project, uses his camera to tell stories of home, land and the people who live and work on it

Perseverance: Ramadan Suleman spent 10 years working on his documentary, By All Means Necessary.  (Paul Botes/M&G)

The Portfolio: Ramadan Suleman

Ramadan Suleman’s documentary, ‘By All Means Necessary’ honours the struggle against colonialism. It will be showing at the Encounters Documentary Film Festival from August 20

Naftali plays the chord harmonica in Kangala, near Pretoria, where he spent part of his youth. (Paul Botes/M&G)
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The Portfolio: Naftali

Naftali has just released his debut single, ‘Kea Shwa’. He tells us a bit about his music-making journey.