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Society
A solo exhibition by Akona Kenqu

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Society is a product of the 2012 Women in Photography Mentorship. The body of work explores the lives and roles of skaters in contemporary South Africa. Seeking spaces of refuge, of expression and of conflict, Kenqu considers the ways in which young black skaters, Skate Society Soweto or SSS in particular, figure their environments and define their belonging. Some of these spaces are made for skaters; many of them are created and appropriated, staking a claim to being and doing as they please. Some of the spaces are personal, already owned, and from the objects and aspects of these spaces a connection is developed to what it means to be a skater and how this meaning is fashioned. Kenqu is interested in challenging the stereotypes of skaters and skate culture, and in figuring the roles of relations, connections and socialisation of the people who call it their own.

About the Women In Photography Mentorship

The mentorship has been created to afford a woman photographer a grant and mentor’s guidance to produce a body of work, aimed at growing the presence of women photographers in the photography industry. The mentorship is a training program that is uniquely equipped to provide a platform to raise the issues that women face and brings together an advisory group of women to guide and share with the recipient.

Akona Kenqu is the first recipient of the 2012 Women In Photography Mentorship and was mentored by Nadine Hutton
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