Friday, 24 March 2023
Ihsaan Haffejee is a Johannesburg born photojournalist. He studied photojournalism and documentary photography at the Market Photo Workshop and has worked at a variety at South African and international publications. He has begun moving into using video and filmmaking to better tell South African stories.
The 15-year-old who used to steal her brother’s skateboard and sneak out to skate will now do so watched by millions of spectators around the globe in sport’s biggest spectacle, the Olympic Games.
Davy Tsopo from Zimbabwe lost his job, like many around the world, because of Covid-19. He taught himself to bake during the lockdown and now runs a small business from home.
Those who knew Nateniel Julies say he was a jolly child, always ready with a greeting and a smile. At the drop of a beat, he would dance. A police bullet pierced through him and ended all that he was.
Gauteng is in the eye of the coronavirus storm with almost 200 000 cases and 3 000 lives lost. New Frame traces the virus in a series of intimate portraits from the province.
Brutal beatings at the hands of the police and military – and arrests for documenting these assaults – have left some residents living in fear of the state during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Naeem Moosa sent a patient to be tested for Covid-19, and within hours misinformation had swept through Lenasia in Johannesburg. Now the doctor has to curb panic as well as try to save lives.
A 2016 picture of a Somalian shopkeeper almost beaten to death by a mob in Tshwane reminds a photographer of the cyclic nature of South Africa’s xenophobic violence.