2025 Infinity Award: Up to date Photography and New Media—Lebohang Kganye

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Lebohang Kganye

Lebohang Kganye is a visible artist and photographer from Johannesburg, South Africa, the place she presently lives and works. 

Although primarily a photographer, her curiosity within the materiality of pictures is ongoing and explored in myriad methods by means of her use of the sculptural, performative, theatrical and the shifting picture. Kganye’s work has explored themes of private historical past and ancestry while resonating with the historical past of South Africa and apartheid, particularly by incorporating the archival and performative right into a observe that facilities storytelling and reminiscence because it performs out within the familial expertise. While her work might resonate with a very South African expertise, it critically engages with oral custom as kind and reminiscence, as a tangible supply materials. Kganye primarily makes use of her household archive to discover and re-enact notions of dwelling and belonging and employs narrative to inform tales of dwelling, refuge, household and id. 

Lebohang Kganye is presently finishing her Masters in Fine Arts on the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. She studied high quality arts on the University of Johannesburg (2016) and pictures on the Market Photo Workshop (2011). Kganye is the recipient of the Deutsche Börse Foundation Prize, 2024 for her exhibition Haufi Nyana? I’ve Come to Take you Home, which befell at FOAM, Amsterdam (2023). Other notable current awards embody the FOAM Paul Huf Award, 2022, Grand Prix Images Vevey, 2021/22 and Camera Austria Award, 2019. 

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Since 1985, the annual ICP Infinity Awards have acknowledged main contributions and rising expertise within the fields of photojournalism, artwork, trend pictures, and publishing. Support the ICP Infinity Awards at icp.org/donate. All proceeds straight profit ICP’s training and exhibition packages.