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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

‘Realities of apartheid’: South African artist wins Deutsche Börse photography prize

Cutout figures in a kitchen with checked floor
The foundation said ‘Lebohang’s work experimented … by combining photography and archival material from her family’. Photograph: Lebohang Kganye

The South African artist Lebohang Kganye has won the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize for her work that uses large-scale cutouts and elements of set design to trace and depict her family history during the apartheid era.

The Johannesburg-based artist took home the £30,000 prize for her winning exhibition, which is on display at the Photographers’ Gallery in central London and is called Haufi nyana? I’ve come to take you home.

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