Africa Table - I See You With My Heart: Interracial Love In Post-Apartheid South Africa

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Event Sponsor
Department of Residential Education and the Cameron Schrier Foundation
Location
Toyon Hall

Join the Center for African Studies for our weekly lunchtime lecture series. This special Africa Table will feature a multimedia exhibition with Miora Rajaonary, Madagascan-South African.

About The Exhibit

“I SEE YOU WITH MY HEART” is a multimedia project composed of a series of intimate portraits documenting interracial couples living in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is complemented by audio interviews that convey their personal experiences as a mixed couple. It is one of the first documentary projects to examine interracial relationships in post-apartheid South Africa, and to explore the progress made and the challenges still faced by the South African society to achieve full reconciliation. Read more.

About Miora

Miora Rajaonary (born in 1984) is an independent documentary photographer currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was born and raised in Antananarivo, Madagascar, before studying at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and working in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for the Communications departments of several companies and organizations. Her passion for photography led her to undergo a professional Photography training in Johannesburg and embark in a second career as a photographer in 2013.

Through her pictures, Miora focuses on social issues and shifting cultures and identities in contemporary Africa. Lately her multimedia project on interracial relationships in South Africa, "I See You With My Heart" gained interest in the country and was one of the five recipients of the "Projets Reseaux" initiative of the Alliance Française of Johannesburg. The project subsequently toured as a solo exhibition, in five cities of South Africa during the second half of 2016.

In October 2016, Miora was selected as for the World Press Photo Masterclass East Africa 2016, the second in the World Press Photo Foundation’s s series of satellites masterclasses, and the first one in Africa. 

Miora is a member of Native Agency, a photo collective aiming at empowering local photographers & visual storytellers from Africa and Latin America and connecting them to a global audience.

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