Jac Kritzinger

Jac Kritzinger is an award-winning fine art photographer with a rich background in travel, portrait, and documentary work, holding a BA Honors in Film and Visual Media.

Kritzinger expertly balances an edgy, stylized aesthetic with a sense of fundamental realism, utilizing emotive color pairing and dynamic lighting while aiming to capture moments authentically in-camera. For the most part, his photographs are deeply personal while at the same time evoking a sense of universal, mystical transcendence, transforming the ordinary into something sublime and deeply evocative. His more conceptual projects often features a strong social conscience and commentary on modern culture. The language of light ultimately illuminates all, and in that sense his work can be seen as a form of visual poetry, inviting viewers to reconnect with a World often lost in plain sight.

- B.A. Degree, University Of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1998
- B.A. Honours (Film Studies) Degree, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1999

- Untitled 3.99, 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, 2016 (group exhibition)

- From Dreams to Reality, Erdmann Contemporary Gallery, Cape Town, 2014 (group exhibition)

- CMYK, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, 2013 (group exhibition)

- The image says it all, Exposure Gallery, Cape Town, 2013 (group exhibition)