Conversation & Sharing Session
with Haneem Christian & friends
“Holding community as sacred, divine and critical to (queer) photographic ethics” - Haneem Christian
Join us in the Market Photo Workshop gallery for a conversation and sharing session around queer photographic modalities and community practices with artist Haneem Christian. Joining Haneem will be RGC curator Danielle Bowler and Karin Tan, Culture & Media Coordinator at GALA Queer Archive.
RSVP here to join. Light refreshments will be served :)
This session is collaboratively presented by GALA Queer Archive and the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class. Learn more about GALA here
Haneem Christian (b. 1994) is an artist and filmmaker from Cape Town, South Africa. Working through lens-based media, their practice centres and archives Queer and Pan-African narratives, histories and storytelling – holding community as sacred, divine and critical to their photographic ethics. Christian has exhibited in notable exhibitions such as International Cape Town Art Fair, 1-54 New York, AKAA, Latitudes, Unseen photo Fair, and Taylor Wessing at the National Portrait Gallery, London. In February 2022, Christian was announced as the winner of the Pride Photo Award 2022. After completing a residency with Magnum Photos, Christian was awarded the National Portrait Taylor Wessing Portrait Award 2022. Bubblegum Club Magazine states, “Haneem is one of the leading forces of the South African future”.
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This programme forms part of the exhibition, Reflections, on Black girlhood, curated by Danielle Bowler.
Click here for more information on the exhibition.