Kurgan, a Johannesburg-based artist, is interested in the nature of photographic transactions and she often collaborates with people and communities in her work. For Park Pictures, she dealt with the culture and economy of over forty street photographers who take portraits in Joubert Park, one of the few green spaces in inner city Johannesburg. Kurgan has plotted their positions numerically on a map, which provides a key to the project.
Her portraits are accompanied by texts that list the personal details of the photographers, invoking their life stories. Alongside Kurgan's own portraits is a selection of unclaimed photographs by the park photographers left by their sitters and bought by Kurgan herself.
Interviewed by Tamar Garb, South Africa, 2010
This film was originally produced as part of a series for the Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography exhibition on display 12 April – 17 July 2011.
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