It Must Be Built From Ashes

Justin's project in Cape Town challenges the mainstream media portrayal of Mitchells Plain and the Cape Flats, creating an intimate social dialogue with communities and their youth. The project evaluates the notion of citizenship and place-related identity - breaking down formal structures of image-making to create a renewed visual economy of the area. Justin's work confronts the ethics of viewership in South Africa, questioning our global presence in the production of the post-colony to interpret a sense of self in modern-day South Africa.