The two photographers featured today seem to represent polar opposites in both choice of subject matter and artistic interpretation - with a twist … Whereas Liam Lynch’s photos of the unreal world of the music industry are unforgiving in their realism, Sabelo Mlangeni’s very real subject matter of the dreary daily toil of cleaners and mine workers seem to be touched with a whimsical wand.

 

Liam Lynch

Liam Lynch has been described at different times as artist, journalist and political science major turned photographer – or simply as a story-teller. If he can be defined as documentarian or story-teller, his ‘stories’ should surely be classified with great literature as his works never fail to convey a deeper narrative than the obvious, with no harsh truths manipulated or obscured by constructed poses and self-conscious subjects. Learn more at: www.questioneverything.co.za or see what he did for the Gallery on 4^th.

Sabelo Mlangeni

Upon moving to the City of Gold to find work he happened to pass by The Market Photographic Workshop, enrolled for a course and thereby started to fulfill his true calling. In 2006 he became the 2nd recipient of the Edward Ruiz Mentorship enabling him to develop the body of work Invisible Women which focuses on the ‘unseen women’ who, like elusive fairies, clean our city streets while others sleep. Learn more at: www.warrensiebrits.co.za or see the work he did for the Nike Be True exhibition.

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