{"id":6009,"date":"2022-02-17T17:14:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T15:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=6009"},"modified":"2025-07-04T12:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:41:09","slug":"publication-bekezela-reclaimers-of-johannesburg-recuperateurs-de-johannesbourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/uncategorized\/publication-bekezela-reclaimers-of-johannesburg-recuperateurs-de-johannesbourg\/","title":{"rendered":"Publication \u2013 Bekezela. Reclaimers of Johannesburg\/ R\u00e9cup\u00e9rateurs de Johannesbourg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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La publication de l\u2019ouvrage\u00a0Bekezela. Reclaimers of Johannesburg\/ R\u00e9cup\u00e9rateurs de Johannesbourg<\/em>\u00a0marque la cl\u00f4ture du projet\u00a0Reclaiming Waste<\/a><\/em>, lanc\u00e9 en 2019 puis red\u00e9marr\u00e9 en 2021-2022, apr\u00e8s une pause forc\u00e9e li\u00e9e \u00e0 la pand\u00e9mie mondiale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2021, la commande \u00e0 l\u2019artiste sud-africain Mark Lewis d\u2019une s\u00e9rie de portraits de recycleurs, photographi\u00e9s sur leur lieu de vie, donne naissance \u00e0 une exposition num\u00e9rique de 27 clich\u00e9s<\/a>. Six portraits sont ensuite s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9s et imprim\u00e9s sur des b\u00e2ches grand format pour \u00eatre expos\u00e9s sur les grilles de l\u2019ambassade de France \u00e0 Pretoria, de juin \u00e0 septembre 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

En f\u00e9vrier 2022 para\u00eet l\u2019ouvrage Bekezela. Reclaimers of Johannesburg\/Recycleurs de Johannesbourg<\/em>, con\u00e7u et publi\u00e9 par l\u2019Institut fran\u00e7ais d\u2019Afrique du Sud. Il est bas\u00e9 sur la s\u00e9rie de Mark Lewis, dans une \u00e9dition enrichie de plusieurs textes \u2014 par exemple une pr\u00e9face de la sociologue Melanie Samson (universit\u00e9 de Johannesbourg) et un avant-propos du photographe. Le livre est consultable sous forme num\u00e9rique sur le site d\u00e9di\u00e9 au projet<\/a>. Vous pouvez \u00e9galement le feuilleter en ligne<\/a> et le t\u00e9l\u00e9charger gratuitement en format .pdf ici<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The publication of Bekezela. Reclaimers of Johannesburg\/ R\u00e9cup\u00e9rateurs de Johannesbourg<\/em> marks the conclusion of the Reclaiming Waste project<\/a>, launched in 2019 and then restarted in 2021-2022, after an enforced pause due to the global pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, South African artist Mark Lewis was commissioned to produce a series of portraits of recyclers, photographed in their living spaces, resulting in a digital exhibition of 27 images<\/a>. Six portraits were then selected and printed on large format canvases to be displayed on the fences of the French Embassy in Pretoria, from June to September 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February 2022, the book Bekezela. Reclaimers of Johannesburg\/Recycleurs de Johannesbourg<\/em>, was conceived and published by the French Institute of South Africa. It is based on the portrait series by Mark Lewis, in an edition enriched with several texts \u2013 for example a preface by sociologist Melanie Samson (University of Johannesburg) and a foreword by the photographer. The book is available in digital form on the project’s dedicated website<\/a>. You can also browse it online<\/a> and download it for free in .pdf format here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  La publication de l\u2019ouvrage\u00a0Bekezela. Reclaimers of Johannesburg\/ R\u00e9cup\u00e9rateurs de Johannesbourg\u00a0marque la cl\u00f4ture du projet\u00a0Reclaiming Waste, lanc\u00e9 en 2019 puis red\u00e9marr\u00e9 en 2021-2022, apr\u00e8s une pause forc\u00e9e li\u00e9e \u00e0 la pand\u00e9mie mondiale. En 2021, la commande \u00e0 l\u2019artiste sud-africain Mark Lewis d\u2019une s\u00e9rie de portraits de recycleurs, photographi\u00e9s sur leur lieu de vie, donne naissance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,21,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-books","category-news","category-publications","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009","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=6009"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8286,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009\/revisions\/8286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}