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Photo:, Johannesburg (2026)

Photo: develops and platforms photography projects and photographers. By engaging with photography and its place in society and with a focus on photography of South Africa and Africa, Photo: promotes emerging and practicing photographers and photography. Through commissioning, producing and connecting photography projects and practioners, Photo: wants to encourage dialogue, exchange, engagement an

d participation. Photo: develops photography projects that deal with socio-political contexts and frameworks, to elucidate current social and political concerns and the politics of aesthetics. Central to its vision, is the idea that photography can be a delicate tool for social change.

13/05/2026

Photo: presents 10:10, an online workshop and collaborative platform. We invite South African photographers to submit projects engaging with the photographic archive.

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We are interested in work that asks how archives can inspire new image-making, how photographers navigate and pay tribute to their sources, and how archival material shifts in meaning across different historical moments and contexts. We also welcome emerging photographers who are working with or through archives as part of developing their own practice.

We are seeking photography practices that explore what a photographic archive is and what it can be — collections of prints and negatives, family albums, documentary repositories, digital folders, institutional records, and the spaces in between. We are also open to work that engages with broader material culture archives — objects, documents, ephemera — where photography remains the primary lens through which that material is approached and transformed.

Among the questions animating this session: What is the difference between a collection and a photographic archive? How do you make new work from inherited images? What do we owe to the sources we draw from? How does an archive speak differently across time?

The online workshop takes place on 17 June 2026.

Applications open: 19 May 2026 Deadline: 03 June 2026

10:10 takes a presentation and feedback format where 10 photographers are given no more than ten minutes to present their work. Presentations are then followed by 15 minutes of feedback from peers and invited respondents. Invited respondents are industry professionals: practitioners, curators, theorists etc.

This edition is open to South African photographers. We're looking for voices that resonate across disciplines and practices, especially those grounded in the complexity and richness of South African visual culture.

If you need more information please contact [email protected]

Apply via this link by 22 May 2026: https://www.phototool.co.za/2025/2026/5/11/1010-archive-open-call

29/04/2026

10:10 Sudan

Photo: hosted 10:10 Sudan on Saturday, 7 March 2026, in partnership with The Other Vision, curated by Ala Kheir.

This edition brought together photographers connected to Sudan and the broader region whose practices engage with displacement — exploring what it means to make images in conditions of rupture, forced movement, and interrupted life. The session generated rich and wide-ranging conversation around questions of form, witness, and the camera as an instrument of both documentation and survival.

10:10 is a presentation and feedback platform where present their work, followed by critical feedback from peers and invited respondents. The format aims to foster dialogue around ongoing and existing photographic projects, offering insight into diverse photographic approaches.

Respondents:

Ala Kheir is a Sudanese photographer, curator and founder of The Other Vision (TOV), a photography platform dedicated to education, training, and mentorship in Sudan. Through TOV, he has helped young Sudanese photographers build their skills and gain exposure, fostering connections between Sudanese artists and the wider African and international photography communities. Kheir has served as Chair of the Africa Jury for the 2025 World Press Photo contest and has been instrumental in researching, archiving, and exhibiting Sudanese photographic history.

John Fleetwood is a photography curator, educator and director of Photo:

Sudanese Participants:
Ammar Yassir (currently Rwanda)
Jaili Hago (currently Qatar)
Israa Alrayah (Sudan)
Hassan Kamil (Sudan)
Khalid Alarabi (currently Qatar)

07/01/2026

Photo: hosted 10:10 on Wednesday , 3 December 2025.

This edition invited photographers working across the African continent to submit projects engaging with land as a political and cultural question—exploring extractivism, land and memory, belonging, lineage and history, representation, displacement, and contested claims.

10:10 is a presentation and feedback platform where ten photographers each have no more than ten minutes to present their work, followed by fifteen minutes of critical feedback from peers and invited respondents. The format aims to foster dialogue around ongoing and existing photographic projects, offering insight into diverse photographic approaches.

This edition was hosted by Photo: director John Fleetwood

Our participating photographers were:

Maheder Haileselassie
Melany Ismail
Naledi Lebeko
Sandile Lushozi
Sibusiso Molwantwa
Simphiwe Fuwe Molefe
Yassmin Forte
Thapelo Masabe
Zwelibanzi Zwane

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