Tshepiso Mabula

Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni is a writer and photographer based in Soweto,
johannesburg. Mabula’s passion for photography was ignited during a visit to her home
village of Lephalale where she was introduced to work by legendary South African
photographer Santu Mofokeng, this led her to study photojournalism and documentary
photography at the iconic Market photo workshop. Mabula explores the small things
through photography: exposing humanity in oppositional, chaotic or even banal
environments. She attempts to capture the dignity in ordinary people, far removed
from the glamorous or ideal atmospheres of high-profile photography. Her work deals
primarily with memory, loss and the fleeting sense of what it means to truly belong.
She creates works that address issues that affect mostly black working class people
in South Africa, looking at how history can be reconciled with the present. She is
the 11th recipient of the Tierney fellowship and her first solo exhibition was titled
Ukugrumba. She has exhibited work at the Art Africa fair in Cape Town, the La Quinta
del sordo gallery in Madrid and has been featured in a number of group shows
including the 40/40 politics of photography group exhibition which opened at the
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Group shows

1.Second Class Citizens 2017 - La Quinta Del Sordo Madrid
2. Cherrie Bomb 2017 - Johannesburg and Cape town
3. 40/40 - the politics of photography - 2016

Solo shows

1. Ukugrumba 2020 - Market photo workshop gallery Johannesburg
2. Bona Izwe Lakokwethu 2020 - Constitution hill