TSHEPISO MABULA, LALA HO NNA SHOALANE E WELE
From my series titled "Umbedesho Wamathambo," titled "Lala ho nna shoalane e wele."
Bio:
Tshepiso Mabula is a Johannesburg-based writer and photographer who works with documentary photography and creative non-fiction literature. Mabula’s interest in photography sparked when during a visit to a family member she was introduced to the works of black documentary photographers like Santu Mofokeng and Andrew Tshabangu.
This led to her studying photojournalism and documentary photography at the Market Photo workshop. She is the 2018 recipient of the Tierney fellowship at the Market photo workshop and was a finalist in the Gerald Kraak anthology and award. Tshepiso is the 2021 Photo works UK writer in residence and was part of the class of 2018 Design Indaba emerging creatives. She is the winner of the 2021 Toyin Falola Short story prize and a member of the Umhlabathi Collective in Johannesburg. She explores the small things through photography: exposing the humanity in oppositional, chaotic or even boring environments. Her work seeks to reflect the dignity in ordinary people, far removed from the glamorous or ideal atmospheres of high-profile photography. Her work deals mostly with memory, loss and the fleeting sense of what it means to belong. She creates works that uses strong creative approaches to reconcile past and present and seeks to create work that serves both as a historical archive as well as a critical account of humanity.
INSTAGRAM : @hardcore_mabhalane
