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A Conversation between Tamar Garb and Jo Ractliffe

22 March 2022, 6:00 pm鈥7:30 pm

A Conversation between Tamar Garb and Jo Ractliffe

On the occasion of her nomination as a finalist for the Deutsche B枚rse Photographic Prize, and her participation in the finalist鈥檚 exhibition at The Photographer鈥檚 Gallery, Tamar Garb will be in conversation with South African photographer Jo Ractilffe.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Helena Vowles-Shorrock – History of Art

Location

Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre
Gower Street
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

Jo Ractliffe

Since the 1980s, Jo Ractliffe鈥檚 photographs have reflected her ongoing preoccupation with the South African landscape and the ways in which it figures in the country鈥檚 imaginary, particularly the violent legacies of apartheid.

Jo Ractliffe: Drives, the first US survey of the photographer鈥檚 work, took place at the Art Institute of Chicago (2020 鈥 21). Previous solo exhibitions include聽Being There, Stevenson, Cape Town (2021);聽Signs of Life, Stevenson, Cape Town (2019);聽Hay Tiempo, No Hay Tiempo, Centro Fotogr谩fico 脕lvarez Bravo, as part of Hacer Noche, Oaxaca (2018);聽Everything is Everything, Stevenson, Johannesburg (2017);聽After War, Foundation A Stichting, Brussels (2015);聽The Aftermath of Conflict: Jo Ractliffe's Photographs of Angola and South Africa, the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015) and聽Someone Else's Country聽at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, (2014)

Ractliffe has taught within various formal and informal contexts including Wits University, the Market Photo Workshop, and the Salzburg Summer Academy. She has held fellowships with the Centre for Curating the Archive, University of Cape Town (2014); Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg (2010); Ampersand Foundation, New York (2008); the Christian Merian Stiftung fellowship at iaab studios, Basel, Switzerland (2001); and the Ecole Cantonale d'Art du Vallais fellowship in Sierre, Switzerland (2001). She was nominated for the Discovery Prize at the Rencontres d'Arles photography festival (2011).

Her photo-books include聽Jo Ractliffe: Photographs 1980s to Now听(2020);听Signs of Life听(2019);听Everything is Everything听(2017);听The Borderlands听(2015),听As Terras do Fim do Mundo聽(2010) and聽Terreno Ocupado(2008).

This event is co-organised by 最准的六合彩论坛鈥檚 Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art and The Photographer鈥檚 Gallery.聽

About the Speaker

Jo Ractliffe

Photographer