Cape Town photographer Francis Broek’s journey began approximately three years ago when he picked up his now-girlfriend Juila’s camera to take a photograph of her at the beach. He wanted more and as many do, rummaged through Gumtree for a second-hand camera. “I hit someone up for an untested NikonFM10…

Veronica joined the analogue photography renaissance in 2018 when she purchased a simple point and shoot camera and a roll of film somewhere in Long Street and “just went wild.” “It was a trend I wanted to follow and I say that without shame,” she said. Initially, she romanticised film…

Sight is recorded by photography, a silent medium that is one of only two ways we have managed to record our five basic senses, according to Sara Knelman. The other is sound. These senses help us navigate and perceive the world. The technology that allowed us to reproduce these perceptions…

One billion. That is the number of people who have lost their jobs to automation since machines took over the assembly line. I do not know if that number is accurate, in fact, I am certain it is not because I made it up. Something very real, however, is the perception that automated journalism is a threat to the livelihood of traditional journalists. — These concerns are precedented — as labour and automation have been at odds since the earliest days of industrialisation — and may even be well-founded: there have been several studies that suggest that automated journalism is equal to human journalism, in certain areas, and it may even be perceived as…

I have been considering rewriting the fragments of stories I’ve written in the past, each day. In the hope that this cyclical repetition will breathe life into dead words. Even if that doesn’t happen, writing every day must be better than despairing about having an empty head all the time. …

Eco-journalism, or journalism about the environment and climate change, intersects the fields of politics, business, science, nature and culture; it also deals with how environmental change affects individuals and the population of the planet at local, regional and global levels¹. — “News media is one of the main platforms that spread views and inform political and societal positions on matters as grave as climate breakdown,” according to Leonie Joubert. News organisations and journalists are looking closer to home for stories on climate change and coverage is becoming increasingly local. This is…

“My regrets look just like texts I shouldn’t send,” is the tentative first line of Mac Miller’s fifth studio album Swimming, a self-exploratory record with a cinematic feel. The opening track, ‘Come Back to Earth’, finds Mac seeking distraction and relief from reality as he lilts over an ethereal, Wurlitzer-drenched…

The 77-year-old artist spoke to ART AFRICA in an all-encompassing conversation that touched on his origins as an artist, his favourite materials and the state of contemporary art in South Africa today — “I started as a traditional healer, and that led me to art,” says the sculptor, poet and academic, Pitika Ntuli. He remembers being initiated by his uncle, who asked him to sit before a dead tree until it spoke to him. The tree remained silent until the young Ntuli started…