Recently CCS has partnered with the Durban Centre for Photography (DCP) to display archived photographic exhibits allowing Durban based community photographers an opportunity to run seminars focused on their worldviews / expressions of development, democracy and socioeconomic rights. The collaboration will also explore rotating mobile exhibitions and innovative ways of disseminating community-led expressions and ‘narratives’.
Durbanity
This collection of photographs is on loan to the Centre for Civil Society from the Durban Centre for Photography.
The photographs exhibited here depict a ‘visual audit’ of various aspects of Durban and its peripheries to better understand the dynamics of contemporary urbanisation patterns and emerging urban cultures.
The photographs map a specific route from peri-urban Cato Manor to Warwick Avenue, Grey Street, Central Durban and Point Road to the beach-front promenade. They aim to capture the African aesthetic shaped by a confluence of urban subjectivities, transient subjects, conflicting narratives and camouflaged realities.
The aim of the exhibition is to showcase an exploration of cultural, social and political identities through the photograph by a group of emerging photographers who see themselves as critical citizens and visual social commentators in the city we know as Durban.
Curation: 2014
Photographers:
Sam Mukanya
Nokwanda Mduli
Ntombenhle Mbongwe
Nonhalnhla Pearl Mngani
Emmanuel Bakuli
Simphiwe Mpanza
Liza du Plessis
Shirin Motala
Paulo Menezes
Peter Mckenzie
The Centre for Civil Society is pleased to be able to exhibit this collection of photographs. The photograph is a powerful medium through which to understand and interrogate lived spaces, terrains of struggle and ‘development’.
Shauna Mottiar