Working the City: Experiences of Migrant Women in Inner-city Johannesburg

The exhibition is a culmination of a participatory photography project which worked with migrant women involved in sex work in the inner city of Johannesburg. The project, which ran for ten days, worked in collaboration with ongoing research that is being undertaken with women involved in sex-work in inner-city Johannesburg. It is hoped that the images selected with the participants and displayed, and the accompanying narratives, will contribute to an increasing body of knowledge relating to the experiences of migrant women involved in sex work and how they (re)present themselves, perceive and experience the city.

Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Programme students at the Market Photo Workshop trained eleven participants in photography and editing skills, and provided added support by accompanying them as they moved about the inner-city to capture images. Participants and students together edited images to create the final exhibition.

Time: 18h00

About the Market Photo Workshop:

The Market Photo Workshop, a Johannesburg-based school of photography, gallery and resource centre for practicing photographers, has played an integral role in the training and growth of South Africa's photographers for twenty years. The Photo Workshop Gallery is the associated gallery of the Market Photo Workshop and shows photographers, students and the products of public practice projects such as those of Working the City.

About Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand:

The FMSP is an independent, interdisciplinary and internationally engaged Africa-based centre of excellence for research and teaching that shapes global discourse on human mobility, development and social transformation.

About Sisonke Sex Worker Movement:

Sisonke is a sex worker led movement that was launched in 2003. The movement aims to unite sex workers, to improve living and working conditions and to fight for equal rights for sex workers.

For more information contact Tambudzai Madzimure at tambudzaim@marketphotoworkshop.co.za.

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