Young photographers ready to embark on exciting photographic adventure

The Market Photo Workshop in collaboration with Isibindi Projects and WITBANK NEWS is conducting the Emalahleni Participatory Photography and Mobile Journalism Project.

The project aims to facilitate processes for community members from Emalahleni to find, explore and represent their stories – not just their present, and the challenges that they currently face, but also their imagined futures and their reflections on how the past has informed the present.

“The objective is to depict the socio-economic living and working conditions of identified ‘micro communities’ within Emalahleni, to highlight their plight in terms of human rights, mining, and environmental vulnerability issues, and to raise awareness amongst the local population and key stakeholders on the importance of addressing the mining and environmental dynamics of Emalahleni,” Busiswa Mrasi from the Market Photo Workshop explained.

Through image-making, 12 participants will be able to reflect and share their lived experiences in the hope of stimulating dialogue.

The Emalahleni Participatory Photography and Mobile Journalism Project seek to contribute, through photography and mobile journalism, to the development of communities.

The concepts of this project have been created with the sole purpose of contributing toward socio-economic change for marginalised communities within the context of the modernisation theory.

This project will empower community members through a system of communication and representation, which has been previously denied to a vast majority of rural regions.

“This is an exciting project and we are looking forward to discovering all the hidden talent out there,” said Amanda Botha, editor of WITBANK NEWS.

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