By Martha Qumba
Some guest speakers were invited by Inkanyiso to speak to young female photographers at Aurora High School Girls in Soweto.
Gabi Ngcobo, Fine Artists and Arts Lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand, Megan Heilig and Jammy-Lee Brophy both art students at Wits, Ziyanda Majozi, mosaic artist from Cape Town and Martha Qumba, a freelance journalist from Cape Town. The purpose was to motivate the girls who were doing photography with Inkanyiso. In February 2014 Inkanyiso has started a photography project to empower girls and to understand that they can become photographers as well.
L-R: Gabi Ngcobo, Ziyanda Majozi, Megan Heilig, Jammy-Lee and Martha Qumba, our guest speakers for the day…
Gabi talked about the importance of being creative and she said with creativity one can come up with amazing things.
By drawing on her own approaches to fundraising Gabi Ngcobo advised on creative ways of ‘raising funds’ by also reconsidering what we mean by “infrastructure” – considering human infrastructure and collaboration. Quoting an African proverb Ngcobo said “alone we go fast, together we go far!”
She said there are many ways of fundraising and learners should start making their own ways.
Megan and Jammy-Lee talked about what they studying and the importance of art.
They offered themselves to do printmaking workshop for the learners.
Ziyanda talked about her work as well and how fascinating it was to share her experience with the learners.
Martha emphasized writing skills so that the learners can document their own history and stories for themselves. She then stressed the importance of writing and encouraged them to write.
Afterwards floods of questions came from the learners. They were interested to know various ways of fundraising.
Previous links
2014 Aug. 30: Insightful analysis from the guest speaker
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2014 Aug. 30: Young aspiring photographers experimenting lithography
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2014 Aug.1: InterGenerational conversation with current and future stars
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2014 July 16: Through the eyes of young women photographers
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2014 July 12: From Soweto to Paris for the love of photography
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2014 July 13: “Give children cameras not candies”
