PORTRAITS JOHANNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICA
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
“IT’S ONE THING TO MAKE A PICTURE OF WHAT A PERSON LOOKS LIKE, IT’S ANOTHER THING TO MAKE A PORTRAIT OF WHO THEY ARE.”
— PAUL CAPONIGRO
Umvenvane, meaning butterfly in Zulu, represents transformation, just as the image below, where the portrait captures both the vulnerability and the confidence of the modern African woman. The tradition and characteristics of the analog wet plate collodion process that this image was photographed in emphasises the contemporary visual expression of this work.
