Lebohang Kganye

Although primarily a photographer, her interest in the materiality of photography is ongoing and explored in myriad ways, through her use of the sculptural, performative, theatrical and the moving image. Kganye’s work has explored themes of personal history and ancestry whilst resonating with the history of South Africa and apartheid, by incorporating the archival and performative into a practice that centres storytelling and memory as it plays itself out in the familial experience. While her work may resonate with a particularly South African experience, it critically engages with oral tradition as form and memory, as a tangible source material. Kganye uses mainly her family archive to explore and re-enact notions of home and belonging, she employs narrative to tell stories of home, refuge, family and identity.

Lebohang Kganye is currently completing her Masters in Fine Arts at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, she studied Fine Arts at the University of Johannesburg (2016) and Photography at the Market Photo Workshop (2011). 

She was the recipient of the 2022 Foam Paul Huf Award, her survey solo exhibition Haufi Nyana? I’ve Come to Take you Home is shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Foundation Prize with an exhibition at the Photographers Gallery, London and Deutsche Börse Foundation, Frankfurt (2024). Other notable recent awards include the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2021/22; and Camera Austria Award, 2019.