Johannesburg - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF) https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/city/johannesburg/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:32:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Exploring Soweto’s counterculture scene with Karabo Mooki https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/photography/soweto-karabo-mooki/ Mon, 22 Mar 2021 13:26:41 +0000 https://import.friendsoffriends.com/?p=60914 Having risen out of the need for more creative spaces for disenfranchised young people to express themselves, Soweto’s counterculture scene is the main source of inspiration for photographer Karabo Mooki. “I feel privileged to witness the beautiful chaos of these intersectional cultures thriving in spaces that have not been identified for Black identities to flourish,”

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]]> Photographer Roger Ballen focuses his lens on humanity’s shadow side, visually revealing his own subconscious https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/photography/unseen-johannesburg-roger-ballen/ https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/photography/unseen-johannesburg-roger-ballen/#respond Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:50:19 +0000 http://localhost:8888/friendsoffriends-migration/2019/09/25/unseen-johannesburg-roger-ballen/ No other twenty first century photographer is as consistently committed to visualizing the shadowy realms of the mind as Roger Ballen. Throughout his career the psychological images he creates have embodied an aesthetic that we now unflinchingly refer to as Ballenesque. Born in NYC in 1950, Ballen moved to Johannesburg 30 years ago, and has

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