{"id":53,"date":"2015-04-28T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/2015\/04\/28\/understanding-and-interpreting-south-africa-through-the-eyes-of-her-photographers\/"},"modified":"2017-11-27T20:41:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T18:41:35","slug":"understanding-and-interpreting-south-africa-through-the-eyes-of-her-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/events\/workshops-seminars\/understanding-and-interpreting-south-africa-through-the-eyes-of-her-photographers\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding and interpreting South Africa through the eyes of her photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-fish-jara-web.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-fish-jara-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-fish-jara-web.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-fish-jara-web-300x109.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH)<br \/>\n7 May 2015<\/h4>\n<p><strong>14:00 &#8211; IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nathalie Jara<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>EHESS &#8211; IMAF<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In order to understand contemporary South Africa, people working on representation allow envisaging the aesthetic way of photography as a space of projection and personal narration. Between subjectivity and objectivity, politics and poetics, photographers&#8217; perceptions appear as a production of senses on societal realities. From a fieldwork research, interviews and observations, my communication proposes to consider photographers\u2019 work and reflections, of different generations, who choose a discourse and an activity through image. Through their eyes, it is contemporary subjects that are approached as history, memory, membership, nostalgia, intimate life, everyday life, creativities, hopes and place in the world. Reflections of photographers allow a relationship between a symbolic, a lived and a pictorial South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Nathalie Jara<\/strong> is preparing a PhD thesis in Social Anthropology and Ethnology at IMAF (Institut des mondes africains) \u2013 EHESS (Ecole des hautes \u00e9tudes en sciences sociales), in Paris. Her research has been supported by The French Institute of South Africa since 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 7 May 2015 14:00 &#8211; IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein &nbsp; Nathalie Jara EHESS &#8211; IMAF In order to understand contemporary South Africa, people working on representation allow envisaging the aesthetic way of photography as a space of projection and personal narration. Between subjectivity and objectivity, politics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workshops-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}