Rafs Mayet, Cedric Nunn at Afrapix darkroom, circa 1985 Born and raised in the vibrant Warwick Triangle, Rafs Mayet attended Melbourne Primary and Umbilo High Schools. After matriculating, he embarked on […]
Forced Removals: Newslands, Durban, 1985 Deseni Soobben teaches Photojournalism in the Journalism Programme at Durban University of Technology. Whilst studying Photography at DUT, she photographed sports events for The Graphic newspaper. Soobben […]
You are invited to join us for a creative writing workshop by Professsor Zakes Mda, hosted in collaboration with the Centre for Creative Arts, Time of the Writer Festival 2024. […]
Alka Dass. Transdisciplinary artist based in Durban, South Africa. I strings beads of storytelling, myth, memory, trauma and identity through the lens of belonging and migration. These themes […]
Cedric Nunn is an award-winning documentary photographer and artist based in Mangethe on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast. Nunn began making photographs in 1982 and joined the Johannesburg based photographic association […]
Acclaimed documentary photographer Cedric Nunn unveils a new retrospective exhibition along with the launch of the African Documentary Photography archive (ADPAI), marking a pivotal moment in the preservation of South Africa’s visual history.
ADPAI is a collaborative effort between AFH and a growing group of acclaimed documentary photographers including: Cedric Nunn, Deseni Sooben, Rafs Mayet, and Jeeva Rajgopaul.
“We are always imagining something that looks like sovereignty, and if it feels out of reach we are compelled to reach toward it anyway.”
Imbeleko_artist offerings is an online series of commissioned artist interactions, or offerings, collaboratively supported by Art for Humanity (Durban University of Technology) and the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (University of Johannesburg).
Art For Humanity is excited to announce the first activation of The Sojourner Project – South Africa, a mobile black studies academy presented by the Practicing Refusal collective.
Art For Humanity is excited to announce the first activation of The Sojourner Project – South Africa, a mobile black studies academy presented by the Practicing Refusal collective.
AfH Artist Solidarity Fund The AfH Artist Solidarity Fund is a short-term intervention set up to provide immediate relief to artists, art students and creative practitioners based in the Durban […]
The AfH Artist Solidarity Fund committee has successfully paid out the first round of disbursements for the month of April. We raised a total of R43085.35 in 9 days and paid 77 verified applicants a total of R559.55 each.
Ifu Elimnyama: The Dark Cloud is a trans-media project that spans the disciplines of film, performance and text by Russel Hlongwane (Durban).
Scheduled for 4-10 May 2020, the Sojourner Project jhb/dbn, is envisioned as a dual city cultural intervention – or Black Studies Mobile Academy – and will be collaboratively presented by the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD), University of Johannesburg (UJ); Art for Humanity (AFH), Durban University of Technology (DUT); the Market Photo Workshop; and the Practicing Refusal Collective (PR Collective).
Molemo Moiloa lives and works in Johannesburg, and has worked in various capacities at the intersection of creative practice and community organizing.
A workshop for emerging and established visual arts writers. Includes inputs and discussion on writing trends and challenges, and artists speaking about their work. First two days are open to the public, the final day is a closed session.
Thulile Gamedze (b1992) is an independent cultural worker, operating as an artist, writer, curator and member of the art collective iQhiya, based in Johannesburg.
Join us at AFH this coming Wednesday for a roundtable conversation on public art in Durban.
Join us at AFH on Tuesday the 3rd of September for an artist talk by Sisipho Ngodwana.
The AfH Artist Solidarity Fund is a short-term intervention set up to provide relief to artists, art students and creative practitioners in the Durban area in the context of the COVID-19 crisis.
Daniel Lima is a Brazilian multimedia artist that explores design and space in the urban ambient.
