Fale le Fale

Founder of the Market Photo Workshop, David Goldblatt, celebrated his 80th birthday in November last year. In recognition of his extensive contribution, not only to the Photo Workshop but also to photography in South Africa, we cordially invite you to the opening of his first exhibition at The Photo Workshop Gallery: Fale le Fale.

Fale le Fale is an exhibition of works selected from both Goldblatt’s historical oeuvre, as well as the work he actively continues to produce, which explores the shifts in significance over time and the ways in which meaning is made through processes of representation. Goldblatt’s photographs are often invested in similar ways, enacting multiple and layered perspectives and questioning the function of photography as a medium of representation. Fale le Fale is Sesotho for “There and There”, referencing the curatorial process of selecting photographs from “there and there” for this exhibition, but also as a suggestion of the ways in which Goldblatt’s practice has encompassed not only a wide coverage of places and times, but also of meanings, of ideas.