BLUE PRINT an exhibition by Michaelis Senior Lecturer Svea Josephy

21 Oct 2015
21 Oct 2015

Please join the Wits City Institute for the opening of BLUE PRINT an Exhibition by Svea Josephy

Svea Josephy is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art (Photography) at the Michaelis school of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. Josephy has held a number of exhibitions of her creative work, nationally and internationally. She has curated a number of group exhibitions.  Josephy’s research interests include Southern African Photography, documentary photography, contemporary South African lens based practice and colonial photography. Her writing on these areas has been published in various books, journals and catalogues on contemporary art and photography. Josephy’s research is concerned with notions of post apartheid photography, particularly as it connects to the politics of space and the land and its representation in relation to identity. She is interested in ‘new documentary’ forms that have emerged in post apartheid South Africa.

Josephy is a Research Associate of the WITS City Institute