‘Images capture our history and who we are, our presence and absence. Growing up in both rural and urban South Africa influences my work. The dualities of these both environments inform the stories I am telling through my photographs, by engaging issues around land, peoples’ movement, identity and the notion of home.’
Thabiso Sekgala on Home is Elsewhere

Here is elsewhere is an exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, showcasing the late Thabiso Sekgala’s photography. I was drawn Sekgala for his interest in belonging, and how this is affected by politics, class and race. As a black man growing up in South Africa and raised in KwaNdebele (an area established by the apartheid government to house black South Africans forced to leave urban areas), he uses the medium of photography to demonstrate the struggles cause by the apartheid and the rejection of the class divide.