Fashion_The Image exhibition Opening

Fashion_The Image, a major new photographic exhibition examining how fashion imagery has shaped visual culture in South Africa and across the continent. Presented across two interconnected centres in Forest Town, Johannesburg, the exhibition brings together photography, film, installation and an expansive public programme to celebrate fashion photography as one of the most influential visual languages of the last five decades. 

Curated by Sharon Armstrong in partnership with Aspasia Karras (Editor of Wanted Magazine), in collaboration with the African Fashion Research Institute, the exhibition is conceived as a wide-ranging survey of fashion photography’s development on the continent. 

A special focus is given to Koto Bolofo (born in Lesotho, raised in South Africa and now based in Paris), presented for the first time in South Africa within a wider photographic lineage of African authorship and influence. 

Koto Bolofo walkabout will start around 10am.

The exhibition is proudly realised with the support of the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture, the Presidential Employment…