Curriculum Vitae
Personal details
Born on 31 August, 1959 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Higher Education
Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cape Town with Majors in African Economic History and Psychology.
Awards & Exhibitions
Awards
| 2022 | Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant |
| 2021 | Head On Portrait Award |
| 2020 | Honorary Fellowship from The Royal Photographic Society, UK |
| 2019 | Shortlist for Prix Pictet 2019 (Hope) |
| 2017 | Shortlist for the Oscar Barnack Award |
| 2016 | Greenpeace Photo Award 2016 (Jury Prize) |
| Jackson Pollock Award for Creativity | |
| 2015 | Shortlist for Prix Pictet 2015 |
| Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant | |
| 2002 | Amnesty International Media Award for Photojournalism |
| 2000 | World Press Photo: Honorable Mention, Daily Life |
| 1998 | World Press Photo: 2nd Prize, Arts and Entertainment |
| 1997 | World Press Photo: 1st Prize, General News Stories |
| 1997 | World Press Photo: 1st Prize, Nature Stories |
| 1997 | Nikon Press Award: 1st Prize, Stories |
| 1996 | W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography |
| 1995 | World Press Photo: 2nd Prize, Nature Stories |
| 1994 | Pictures of the Year: 1st Prize, Photo Essay |
| 1993 | World Press Photo: 1st Prize, Sports Stories |
| 1991 | World Press Photo: 2nd Prize, People in the News stories |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2023 | The Ward Revisited (a video installation) at The Fitzrovia Chapel, London, UK |
| Fire / Flood at the Greenpeace Stage, Glastonbury Festival, Somerset, UK | |
| Drowning World at the Encontros Da Imagem Festival (Theme: Essays For The Future), Braga, Portugal | |
| Drowning World and Burning World at the PhEST Festival. Monopoli, Italy | |
| Drowning World (Submerged Portraits) at Photo Frome in Somerset, UK | |
| Drowning World at the Or Bleu Festival in La Roche Posay, Novelle-Aquitaine, France | |
| Drowning World (Submerged Portraits) and Burning World (Portraits in Ashes) at PhEST Festival in Monopoli, Italy | |
| 2022 | Fire / Flood at the Soho Photographers Quarter, part of The Photographers Gallery, London, UK. |
| Burning World at Festival Internazionale Di Fotogiornalismo, Padua, Italy | |
| Burning World at the Journalism Festival, Innsbruck, Austria. | |
| 2021 | Drowning World at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA |
| Submerged Portraits at the Ballarat International Photo Biennale, Australia. | |
| Drowning World at the Riaperture Photo Festival, Ferrara, Italy. By Fire and by Flood at Merignac Photo 2021. | |
| 2020 | Flood and Fire; Our Fragile Planet at ARTCO Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| Freedom or Death at ARTCO Gallery, Cape Town, South Afrcia | |
| F2METRES at Cortona on the Move Festival | |
| 2019 | Damage at The Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg |
| Drowning World at Zone-I Gallery, France | |
| Drowning World at Festival du Regard, France | |
| Drowning World at Cortona on the Move, Italy | |
| Drowning World at Intime Literary Festival, Belgium | |
| Deluge at the Solidarités Music Festival, Belgium | |
| Burnt Memory (with Jonathan Pierredon) at La Chambre Noire, Arles | |
| Drowning World at the Oak Institute for Human Rights, ME, USA | |
| 2018 | Drowning World (and Deluge) at the Kyotographie Festival, Japan |
| Drowning World (and Deluge) at MOMA Jacksonville | |
| Deluge at PhotoFest Gallery, Houston | |
| Drowning World at the Ray Trienial, Frankfurt | |
| Drowning World at Horizonte Zingst, Germany | |
| Delugeat the Instuture of Humanities Gallery, UMICH | |
| Drowning World at the Landskrona Festival, Sweden. | |
| 2017 | Drowning World at Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles |
| Drowning World at WAM (Wits Art Museum), Johannesburg | |
| Drowning World at Kaunas Photo, Lithuania | |
| Dzhangal at Autograph ABP, London | |
| The Ward at the Fitzrovia Chapel, London | |
| 2016 | Drowning World at ‘Points of Departure’, part of the Estuary Festival |
| Drowning World at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at MSU | |
| Drowning World at LagosPhoto 2016. | |
| Drowning World at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul | |
| Drowning World at the Jaipur Photo 2016 | |
| 2015 | Drowning World at the Lianzhou Foto Festival 2015 |
| Drowning World billboard exhibition in Paris prior to COP21 | |
| Drowning World-UK, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth. | |
| Drowning World (Video and Stills), Lianzhou Festival, China | |
| Drowning World, PhotoFestival Naarden, The Netherlands | |
| 2014 | Drowning World, Queen’s Park station (Contacting Toronto Festival) |
| Living in Yeoville Revisited, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg. | |
| Drowning World ‘Picture Windows’ installation. ICP, New York. | |
| Drowning World, Tiwani Contemporary. London. | |
| Drowning World.‘After Photography’ festival in Montevideo | |
| 2012 | Drowning World, Somerset House East Wing Gallery. |
| 2009 | Kingsmead Eyes with Kingsmead School, V&A Museum of Childhood. |
| 2001 | A Broken Landscape and Facing AIDS, Museum Africa. |
| A Broken Landscape and Facing AIDS, SANG | |
| 2000 | A Broken Landscape HIV and AIDS in Africa, Oxo Tower, London |
| 1998 | A Broken Landscape HIV and AIDS in Africa, The Spitalfields Gallery. |
| 1997 | A Broken Landscape HIV/AIDS in Africa. Perpignan Photo Festival |
| 1993 | Waiting for Rain: Drought in Zimbabwe. Perpignan Photo Festival |
| 1989 | Beloofde Land (Promised Land) Market Photo Gallery,Johannesburg. |
| 1988 | Living in Yeoville, Market Photo Gallery, Johannesburg. |
| 1986 | TheStruggle, Market Photo Gallery, Johannesburg. |
Group Exhibitions
| 2023 | The Future, Agency in a Globalised World at the Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany. |
| Consolation: In the Footsteps of Human Need at the Museum of Sepulchral Culture, Kassel, Germany | |
| 2022 | Cartographies of Becoming at The Sylt Foundation Gallery, Sylt, Germany |
| 2021 | Raining Embers at the Ballarat International Photo Biennale, Australia. |
| The Horizon is Moving Nearer at The Portuguese Centre for Photography, Porto. | |
| 2019 | 50 Years Collection at Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles |
| Prix Pictet at the V&A, London and touring | |
| The World to Come at the Harn Museum of Art, Florida. | |
| Through Positive Eyes at the Fowler Museum, Los Angeles | |
| ArlesTurns 50 at the Rencontres Collection in Arles, France | |
| 2018 | Coal and Ice at Fort Mason, San Francisco. |
| 2017 | Bending the Frame, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York. |
| Through Positive Eyes. Durban Art Gallery and touring. | |
| 2016 | Drowning World at The Edge of the Earth: Climate Change in Photography and Video. Ryerson Image Center, Toronto. |
| Bending the Frame, Copenhagen Fotografisk Center and touring. | |
| The Water Chapters at ‘Weather or Not’ (The art of Climate Change) MU Gallery, Eindhoven, Holland. | |
| Drowning World at ‘What Next-Picture Tomorrow’ 38CC Gallery Delft | |
| Through Positive Eyes Collaboration Durban Art Gallery | |
| 2015 | Prix Pictet, Disorder, Musée d’Art Moderne Paris and touring |
| 2014 | Lost World (video art) The Freer and Sackler Gallery, Washington DC |
| Forecast Anderson Gallery at VCU | |
| Times of Struggle (UK and South Africa) Double Negative Galery | |
| 2013 | ICP Triennail, A Different Kind of Order |
| 2012 | ICP, Haus der Kunst and touring, The Rise and Fall of Apartheid |
| The ART Show, The Museum Africa and touring in South Africa. | |
| The ART Show Smithsonian Folklife Festival, The National Mall. | |
| 2010 | Not Alone, The Castle, Iziko Museum of Cape Town |
| 2009 | Lucy Florence Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 13 Love Stories |
| 2008 | Make Art Stop AIDS The Fowler Museum in LA and touring |
| Historias Positivas Cento Banimex, Mexico City | |
| 2006 | The Body at Risk ICP, New York |
| 1993 | Positive Lives. Photographers Gallery, London |
Monograph
| 2019 | Freedom or Death (with David Gere) published by GOSTBooks |
| Through Positive Eyes(with David Gere) Published by Aperture | |
| 2017 | The Ward published by Trolley Books |
| 2017 | Dzhangal, published by GOST |
| 2001 | A Broken Landscape: HIV and AIDS in Africa(edited by Chris Boot) |
Video/Film
| 2018 | The Deluge five channel video installation part of Drowning World exhibitions at Kyotographie, MOCA Jacksonville, PhotoFest Gallery and the Institute of Humanities Galley, UMICH. |
| 2017 | Water Chaptersfilm part of the Drowning World exhibition in Arles |
| 2016 | Water Chaptersfilm part of Drowning Worldexhibition at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at MSU. |
| 2015 | Water, Chapters 10 and 11 shown at the Plymouth Arts CentreDrowning World-UK show. |
| Two-channel projection of Water, Chapters 6, 7, 8 and 9 facing Water, Chapters 10, 11 and 12 at the Lianzhou Festival, China. | |
| 2014 | Water, Chapters 6, 7, 8 and 9 shown at the Freer and Sackler Gallery in Washington. |
| 2013 | Water, Chapters 6 and 7 shown at the ICP Triennial in New York and at Tiwani Contemporary in London. |
| 2012 | Curator Okwui Ewenzor commissioned Living in Yeoville for the Rise and Fall of Apartheid exhibition. |
| Through Positive Eyes, a short film is shown as part of the opening plenary session of the 2012 Global HIV/AIDS Conference in Washington. | |
| 2011 | Kingsmead Eyes Speak, a film made with pupils from Kingsmead Primary School shown at the Open Cities Documentary Festival and the East End Film Festival in London. |
| Living with Floodwaters, a short video about flooding in Bangkok was shown on MSNBC and is voted a ‘staff pic’ on Vimeo. | |
| 2009 | Kingsmead Eyes, a film made with pupils from Kingsmead Primary School was shown at the V&A Museum of Childhood and at the New York Photo Festival. |
| 2005 | AIDS orphans in Swaziland broadcast on BBC Newsnight. |
| 2003 | The Harsh Divide, a series of four short films about access to HIV Treatment broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK. |
Public Collections
The International Centre of Photography (ICP), New York, USA
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, USA
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, MA. USA.
The South African National Gallery (SANG), South Africa
Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) South Africa
WAM (Wits Art Museum)
Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles
Major Magazines and other Publications
| 2022 | The Guardian Weekend Magazine: Climate Artefacts |
| BBC Africa: Drowning World (Nigeria) | |
| 2021 | National Geographic Online: Australia Fires (One Year on) |
| 2020 | The Guardian Weekend Magazine Australia Fires |
| The Guardian 2Metres, Masked Portraits on Ridley Road | |
| Huck Magazine Freedom or Death | |
| EL PAÍS Semanal Freedom or Death | |
| M Magazine of Le Monde Freedom or Death | |
| 2019 | Aperture Magazine, The Watermarks from Drowning World |
| MarieClaire Magazine (numerous editions globally) Drowning World | |
| 2018 | Geo Magazine, Drowning World |
| Foam Magazine, Drowning World | |
| The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Fires in California | |
| Fotografi (Norway), Drowning World | |
| 2017 | 6Mois, Drowning World |
| The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Floods in Texas and Florida | |
| 2016 | ArtAfrica, Filming But Drowning |
| Vrij Nederland, Drowning World | |
| Musée Magazine,Issue Chaos. Drowning World | |
| 2015 | National Geographic, Drowning World |
| The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Migrants on Crossing the Med | |
| The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Drowning World | |
| Photoworld (China), Floodlines from Drowning World | |
| 2014 | The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Three Feet High and Rising |
| 2013 | The Independent on Sunday Magazine, Drowning World |
| The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Tacloban Disaster | |
| 2009–2012 | Through Positive Eyes website: www.throughpositiveyes.org |
| 2011 | Kingsmead Eyes Speak website: www.kingsmeadeyesspeak.org |
| 2010 | The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Forgotten, But Not Gone |
| 2009 | Guardian Weekend, Proposition 8, Gay Couples in California |
| Guardian Weekend, Think Positive | |
| 2008 | German Geo, Memory Boxes for HIV/AIDS |
| Guardian Weekend, Flooding in Haiti | |
| 2007 | The Guardian G2, From Mother to Child |
| Equal Treatment, Children and HIV | |
| The Guardian G2, A Tale of Two Floods | |
| 2006 | The Guardian G2, Soweto, 30 Years After the Uprising |
| The Guardian G2, The Memory Box Project | |
| Guardian Weekend, I Look Like my Mother (Pantomime Dames) | |
| Observer Magazine, Happy Days (A Hackney School) | |
| 2005 | Guardian Weekend Magazine, Eight Women, One Voice |
| National Geographic, Living With AIDS | |
| Guardian Weekend, An Answer in Africa | |
| 2004 | Guardian Weekend The Children Left Behind |
| Sunday Times Magazine Violated and Isolated (Rwanda Women HIV) Living Proof 10th Anniversary of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance | |
| 2003 | Guardian Weekend, Salvation is Cheap |
| Positive Nation, Facing AIDS in South Africa | |
| National Geographic, A Land Possessed (Land Issues in Zimbabwe) | |
| 2002 | HIV Treatment Activist Poster Set made with MSF in South Africa |
| Guardian Weekend. Looking AIDS in the Face | |
| 2001 | Guardian Weekend Magazine, The Life Savers |
| 2000 | Guardian Weekend, While the World Looks Away |
| L’Express, Le Sida en Afrique | |
| 1999 | Poster Campaign for the Terence Higgins Trust, Fighting Stigma |
| POZ Magazine, AIDS in Africa | |
| Guardian Weekend Magazine, Israel, State of the Nation | |
| 1998 | Reportage Magazine Booklet, A Broken Landscape |
| 1997 | Reportage Magazine. Troubled Waters |
| Conde Naste Traveller. Lost Tribe of the Kalahari | |
| Focus Magazine, AIDS in Africa | |
| 1996 | Grands Reportages, Koyasan, Japanese Village of Temples |
| Independent Magazine, Days of Empire | |
| Fortune Magazine, Young Americans in Vietnam | |
| Independent on Sunday, The New Black Mayor of Ventersdorp | |
| Greenpeace Magazine (Germany). Senegalese Fishing Village | |
| 1995 | Photographers International, British Photography |
| Das Magazin, King Goodwill Zwelithini | |
| Reportage Magazine, Claremont Road | |
| Claremont Road, A Festival of Resistance Publication | |
| The Open Book. Publication for Crisis at Christmas | |
| 1994 | Christian Aid Poster Campaign, We Believe in Life Before Death |
| Reportage Magazine, De Aar Elections | |
| 1993 | The Independent Magazine, A High School in Soweto |
| Tempo, AIDS Ward, Middlesex Hospital | |
| Independent Magazine, An Everyday Occurrence (Zimbabwe HIV) | |
| Telegraph Magazine, The death of the Zambian Football Team | |
| 1992 | Independent Magazine, Paradise Lost (Return after Removals) |
| Tempo Magazine, The Crisis of Somalia | |
| Tempo Magazine, London’s Homeless | |
| Merian, Portrait of Johannesburg | |
| 1991 | The Independent Magazine, The Black Jews of Israel |
| 1989 | Leadership Magazine, Promised Land |
| The Observer Magazine, The British Who Choose South Africa | |
| 1988 | Leadership Magazine, Living in Yeoville |
| 1987 | Stern Magazine, Forbidden Photos from South Africa |
| Beyond the Barricades (Popular Resistance in South Africa) | |
| 1986 | Leadership Magazine, Lines of Sight (Images of the Struggle) |