Walkabout with Mikhael Subotzky and the Umhlabathi Collective:
Mpho Moshe Matheolane, Ruth Seopedi Motau, Thabiso Sekgala, Mikhael Subotzky, Andrew Tshabangu

Location
2 Helen Joseph Street (Bus Factory/JDA Entrance) Newtown

Date
9 September 2023
3pm

Event details
Don’t you know / They’re talking about a revolution? / It sounds like a whisper – Tracy Chapman. 

Revolution is not a one time event – Audre Lorde.

Whispers are an intimate exchange, often shared between lovers, children at play and between a mother and child. Whispers are heavy with the weight of the lingering memories, they travel with the wind through people and place to disrupt the present with stories of an unsettled past. From touching on the frontier wars and the pressing “land issue” to spirituality in urban South Africa, the photographers evoke and express their commentary through a whisper. Can these whispers be seen? Are they carried in the cotton-wool clouds and the sea-spray seen in landscape photography?