The making of "Places in Me", a photovoice exhibition project with the youth of Platfontein ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOX6d3eI5Oo
Résumé
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOX6d3eI5Oo
This exhibition is the result of a collaboration between an international research team, COSMO-ART, and two Platfontein-based NGOs, the Southern African San Development Organisation (SASDO) and San Community Development (SANCD). The project comes from a common desire to gather together and make visible the perspectives that young people in Platfontein have on their place in South African society through the way they see the place where they live.
Equipped with cameras, the project was to document different aspects of their local environment that are important, relevant and interesting to them. Then, interviews conducted in 2022 made it possible to collect the authors’ points of view on their pictures. The exhibition therefore proposes a dialogue between photos and expressions by the nine young women and men who took part in the photovoice project.
The photographs and voices of Platfontein’s young people speak of beauty, suffering, aspirations, disappointments and of shifting identities. In this visual exploration, the images capture and convey the individual perspectives of the authors, how they see themselves, how they define and relate to the world, and what they perceive as important or different.