Photo exhibition puts the spotlight on talented sportswomen
The event was a pop-up exhibition, which intrigued attendees with inspiring photos of women in sport.
A NATIONAL solo photographic exhibition, featuring women in sport and sportswomen was launched at the Wentworth Organisation of Women (WOW) on Thursday, 1 August as South Africa entered women’s month.
The visual narrative titled ‘Outta The Kitchen: South Africa’s Sportswomen At Play’ was an exhibition of photographs done by Cheryl Roberts, who grew up and schooled in the area before moving to live in Cape Town.
The event was a pop-up exhibition, which intrigued attendees with inspiring photos of women in sport. ‘Wow. I have never seen so many photographs of sportswomen like this,’ said one learner who attended and viewed the exhibition. Another learner who attends school in Johannesburg and whose grandmother lives in Wentworth, was so inspired by the visual narrative, that she said she is going to do a school project on the exhibition.
Cheryl Roberts is a writer, publisher and photographer, whose work and content focuses on girls and women in sports. She has been writing about sport and women in sport for over 25 years, since she was a university student.
“I brought the exhibition to open in Wentworth because its where I went to school during the apartheid years. At primary school we had no community library, nor sports facilities at school. Just a sandy ground to play hockey and football. Now I came back to show how opportunities have opened up and much more women are involved in sport and playing much more sports in post-apartheid SA,’ said Cheryl, who is one of South Africa’s first black woman to be a publisher of a sportswoman publication.
“I’m doing this visual narrative to amplify the exposure of women in sport and sportswomen at play. I want children and girls and women to see themselves being exhibited and be proud of their participation in sport”
The photographs chosen for the exhibition show women playing cricket, rugby, hockey as well as older women playing softball, participating in road running. One of the older women featured in the exhibition is 74-year-old Wentworth resident, Ivy Lottering who took up road running in her 50s.
The sportswomen will move around South Africa until the end of the year and will be exhibited in libraries, schools and sports fields. The exhibition is being held in memory of Cheryl Roberts’ parents who she said: “paid for my participation in sport and supported me in sport during the apartheid years when I played sport.”
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