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Botswana’s Letso Leipego’s 2018 photo is called A Sacrifice. Gabarone-based Leipego’s photography of rural life in Botswana is inspired by curiosity – something he says he inherited from his grandfather, who also features in many of his photographs Picture: letso leipego/guns & rain art gallery
The seventh edition of the annual Investec Cape Town Art Fair takes place from Friday to Sunday.
It will showcase a diversity of work from emerging as well as established artists.
The focus is on contemporary art, with more than 100 galleries and exhibitors from Africa and the world taking part. Among the offerings on sale will be a selection of striking photographs.
Botswana’s Letso Leipego’s 2018 photo is called A Sacrifice. Gabarone-based Leipego’s photography of rural life in Botswana is inspired by curiosity – something he says he inherited from his grandfather, who also features in many of his photographs Picture: letso leipego/guns & rain art gallery
Ghanaian photographer Prince Gyasi shoots vibrant, curated images of his hometown, Accra, often on an iPhone Picture: Prince Gyasi/nil gallery
black on black This self-portrait by the famous South African activist and photographer Zanele Muholi is titled Isiqhaza I, Philadelphia. In recent years Muholi, famous for documenting queer life, has been turning the camera on herselfPHOTO: zanele muholi/stevenson cape town and yancey richardson new york
Jesse A. Fernández was a Cuban artist and photographer who passed away in 1986. This iconic image taken at the Newport Jazz Festival features two legends of the musical world, Eartha Kitt and Dizzy Gillespie Picture: Jesse A Fernandez/sitor senghor
From Ima Mfon’s Nigerian Identity Series this image is simply called Untitled 09 and features a young man called Wande, a youth leader at a church in Houston in a traditional hat. Mfon divides his time between Nigeria and the US Picture: Ima Mfon/omenka gallery
Namibian photographer Kyle Weeks’ portrait series of 18-year-old Vapwakuapi Thom was also taken in the Kunene Region Picture: Kyle weeks/Galleria Officine dell’Immagine
From a series called For the Palm Wine Collector, young Namibian photographer Kyle Weeks documents the young Himba men who collect the sap of palm trees to use to make wine in the Kunene Region Picture: Kyle weeks/Galleria Officine dell’Immagine
