Jabulani Dhlamini South Africa, b. 1983

Jabulani Dhlamini is a documentary photographer whose practice reflects on his upbringing in the post-apartheid era alongside the experiences of local South African communities. Dhlamini’s most celebrated bodies of work have focused on key moments in South African history, such as Recaptured which looks at cross-generational recollections of the Sharpeville Massacre, and Isisekelo which documents the familial impact of land dispossession and iQhawekazi, which mapped the shifting legacy of Winnie Madikizela- Mandela at the time of her death in 2018.

Dhlamini’s approach is meditative and subtly provokes a closer look at what lies on the edges through an exploration of personal and collective memory. Incorporating landscape imagery and intimate portraits, his work captures historical moments while also documenting the quieter moments in the lives of everyday South Africans.

Dhlamini majored in documentary photography at the Vaal University of Technology, graduating in 2010. He is an alumni fellow of the Edward Ruiz Mentorship programme and the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg.