South African photographers: Figures & Fictions

The work of a collection of South African photographers a ‘depiction of people and a self-conscious engagement with South Africa's political and photographic past’ is currently on show at the V&A.

The exhibition - Figures & Fictions – highlights the work of seventeen artists whose contemporary South African photography shows figures that ‘raise pertinent issues of identity: how the gaze of the camera, photographer and viewer is returned by the subject, and the balance of power which that interaction implies’.

The V&A states that the works bring to the fore ‘post-Apartheid, complex and fundamental issues - race, society, gender, identity - remain very much on the surface; and is reflected by the image makers who harness the resulting scenes as a form of creative tension within their personal vision”.

The Figures & Fictions exhibition is on at the Victoria and Albert Museum until 17th July.

Main picture: 'Untitled I' by South African artist Kudzanai Chiurai featured in exhibition.