Human Stories: A Young South Africa
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The 2023 Human Stories series spotlights South African photography, bringing together six photographers and creative practitioners documenting the diverse culture of their home nation, framed by a complex and sometimes turbulent political, socio-economic and cultural landscape.
As South Africa faces a continuous decline in basic services like clean water and rapidly rising youth unemployment, the country’s young generation ‘Ama2000s’ boldly and irreverently inject fresh creative energy into the global cultural scene through visual culture, music, and fashion. 50 years after the Soweto student uprisings and 30 years into the new South African democracy, NOW Gallery features six photographic diegeses surveying South African cities. The six chosen artists capture creative empowerment through artistic provocation, individualism, and authorship through a lens of youth-subcultural movements.
