Après l'Apartheid

If these three South African photographers have anything in common, it's their use of photography as a painterly medium and rejection of engaged socio-realist themes for a form of escapism. Vivian Van Boech's colourful, tongue-in-cheek scenes are full of references to art history and mythology using animals to create miniature worlds that veer between the fantastical and apocalyptic. Jennifer Lund's colourscapes with their references to the elements take the image towards abstraction while Tracy Gander plays with light in South African landscapes taken from a moving car.