Jabulani Dhlamini Biography

Jabulani Dhlamini was born in Warden, Free State in 1983; he lives and works in Johannesburg. Dhlamini majored in documentary photography at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg and he was the recipient of the Edward Ruiz Mentorship 2011/2012. Dhlamini’s work focuses on his upbringing, as well as the way he views contemporary South Africa.

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His Umama series was exhibited as part of his Edward Ruiz award at the Market Photo Workshop in 2012, and at Goodman Gallery Cape Town in 2013 – his first solo exhibition with the gallery. In Umama, Dhlamini pays homage to single mothers and explores the challenges faced by women raising children on their own in South African townships. For his Recaptured series, which was exhibited at Goodman Gallery in 2016, Dhlamini turned to the community of Sharpeville, asking people to bring objects that reminded them of the 1960 massacre. Over the course of several years Dhlamini interviewed and photographed a number of individuals who traced their movements and emotions on the day of the Sharpeville Massacre, relocating themselves within the collective memory.

In 2018 Dhlamini’s work was featured on the Five Photographers, A Tribute to David Goldblatt group exhibition at the Gerard Sekoto Gallery at the French Institute. In his most recent exhibition at Goodman Gallery, iXesha!, Dhlamini explored how memory is created and archived within a community where the memory has been localised. This exhibition included images from Dhlamini’s recent series iQhawekazi documenting the events ar

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kwa-Msibi ekhaya elincane, eNkuthu, Ladysmith by Jabulani Dhlamini contemporary artwork photography
Jabulani Dhlamini kwa-Msibi ekhaya elincane, eNkuthu, Ladysmith, 2022 Pigment inks on fibre paper
110 x 110 cm
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ihashi lase Sandlwana, Nquthu, KZN by Jabulani Dhlamini contemporary artwork photography
Jabulani Dhlamini ihashi lase Sandlwana, Nquthu, KZN, 2022 Pigment inks on fibre paper
50 x 75 cm
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Mkhulu Makomu Dhlamini, Warden by Jabulani Dhlamini contemporary artwork photography
Jabulani Dhlamini Mkhulu Makomu Dhlamini, Warden, 2022 Pigment inks on fibre paper
60 x 60 cm
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Sjay, Zenzeleni Location, Warden by Jabulani Dhlamini contemporary artwork photography
Jabulani Dhlamini Sjay, Zenzeleni Location, Warden, 2022 Pigment inks on fibre paper
62 x 70 cm
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Ma-Shabalala, eNkuthu, Ladysmith by Jabulani Dhlamini contemporary artwork photography
Jabulani Dhlamini Ma-Shabalala, eNkuthu, Ladysmith, 2022 Pigment inks on fibre paper
130 x 130 cm
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uhambo Iwami, Vrede by Jabulani Dhlamini contemporary artwork photography
Jabulani Dhlamini uhambo Iwami, Vrede, 2022 Pigment inks on fibre paper
50 x 75 cm
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Ndlondlo, eNkuthu, Ladysmith by Jabulani Dhlamini contemporary artwork photography
Jabulani Dhlamini Ndlondlo, eNkuthu, Ladysmith, 2022 Pigment inks on fibre paper
56 x 79 cm
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Intaba iSandlwana, Nquthu, KZN by Jabulani Dhlamini contemporary artwork photography
Jabulani Dhlamini Intaba iSandlwana, Nquthu, KZN, 2022 Pigment inks on fibre paper
50 x 75 cm
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