Lebohang Kganye

A Bit About Her

Lebohang Kganye – is 36 from Johannesburg, South Africa and is interested in self portraiture. Her work is focused mainly on personal history and also collective history of her culture. Looking further back into her family archive. She does this by making creative structures and going to certain locations where her family once was and using certain camera techniques such as double exposure. She treats her work as more of living memories of those close to her. She is further able to attempt to receive a clearer perspective of what life was like for her ancestors. By combining her photography skills with her creative art skills that she learnt after receiving her Master in Fine arts. This allowed her to unite these two talents and make pieces of work that connect to form a strong relationship

Why Am I Studying Her?

Her images connote to a past generation. This is an idea I would like to follow and link my interpretation of the word origin. I believe that her images hold a deeper meaning and show the connection that she has with her past and how she understands the importance of certain movements that have led her to be able to freely live her life.

Below is a hyperlink that goes to her website which can further show the work that goes into her images and the design and format of them.

https://www.lebohangkganye.co.za

Image Analysis

Technical:

Lighting: She uses artificial lighting that is positioned behind the camera so shadows around her are visible. There is a good contrast between the designs that she has made and the shadows because of the colours being black and white.

Looks to also be using a higher aperture with either an automatic ISO or an ISO like 200 as they are shooting in the light. The temperature seems to be quite warm as the light has more of a warm tone

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