In his documentary-style images, Thero Makepe pursues a visual language that references fables, current affairs, and family dynamics.
Through his vivid landscapes and portraits, Lindokuhle Sobekwa portrays the harsh poetry of rural life in the country’s Eastern Cape.
Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo’s experimental, multilayered images invoke the chance gestures and social life of taverns in Johannesburg.
Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.