Alexia-Webster on The Click

The Documentary Photography Issue VII: Home, reimagined

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Documentary Photography Issue VII: Home, reimagined

It feels as if our relationship with the idea of home is changing. Across the world, nationalism finds itself dancing freely with far-right politics, while political divisions have chopped families right down the middle, transforming previously tight-kni

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/the-documentary-photography-issue-vii-home-reimagined/

‘Home’ is both a physical and imagined space – a state and place of belonging. In our annual celebration of visual storytelling, join us as we spotlight the photographers capturing it in all of its wildly different guises.

South Africa Week: Alexia Webster | LENSCRATCH

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

South Africa Week: Alexia Webster - LENSCRATCH

Alexia Webster’s Street Studio project began in 2011 and in the years since she has photographed thousands of sitters across the African continent and beyond. Though the project represents a departure from her personal and professional work, the series aligns with a direction she sees her work heading in the future. “I’m interested in having

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/07/south-africa-week-alexia-webster/

Alexia Webster’s Street Studio project began in 2011 and in the years since she has photographed thousands of sitters across the African continent and beyond. Though the project represents a departure from her personal and professional work, the series aligns with a direction she sees her work heading in the future. “I’m interested in having work that’s a conversation between the me and the subject,” she says. Webster’s engagement project also reflects an impulse common to many South African photographers: to push the boundaries of the medium as a tool for transforming society. “Photography in South Africa,” Webster says, is always having a slightly different conversation than any other photographic space in the world. We grapple with things quite intensely — ideas of self and identity and place and politics and memory — and the photography does the same.

Pre-Order: POV Female Johannesburg

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Five monographs, published in 2013, on Johannesburg female photographers include Tracy Edser, Nadine Hutton, Lisa King, Nontsikelelo Veleko, Alexia Webster

Alexia Webster's Photos of a South African Village Still Grappling With Apartheid

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Atop a Mountain, South Africa’s Ghosts

In Hogsback, South Africa, a mountaintop village surrounded by mist and a primeval forest, the legacy of apartheid still permeates relations between white and black residents.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/atop-a-mountain-south-africas-ghosts/

For as long as Alexia Webster can remember, she has visited Hogsback with her family at least once a year, driving nine hours from their home in Johannesburg to a cluster of cabins her great-grandfather built nearly a century ago. To a young child, Hogsback was a mystical place full of ancient trees and twisted foliage, like something out of a J. R. R. Tolkien novel. In fact, Hogsback has often been misidentified as Tolkien’s inspiration for “Lord of the Rings.”