SOUTH AFRICA: South African female singers and performers featured in Cape Town photography exhibition

Record ID: 455386

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: South African female singers and performers featured in Cape Town photography exhibition
  • Date: 31st March 2008
  • Summary: (AD1) CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA (MARCH 29, 2008) (REUTERS) VIEW OF CONVENTION CENTRE ZIMBABWEAN SINGER OLIVER MTUKUDZI AND HIS BAND PERFORMING FANS CHEERING MTUKUDZI PERFORMING
  • Embargoed: 15th April 2008 13:00
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  • Location: South Africa
  • Country: South Africa
  • Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment / Showbiz
  • Reuters ID: LVA31OA8Z9FSIODDAY0JZZYJ5E16
  • Story Text: A photography exhibition is held alongside the annual Cape Town International Jazz festival and features both local and international talent.
    The Cape Town International Jazz Festival was started in 2000, and every year since then, a photographic exhibition has been organised alongside the festival that documents the lives of the international artists on stage.
    Famous photographers like Herman Leonard, Alf Khumalo, George Hallett, Cedric Nunn, William Ellis, Uli Pschewoschny, Ranjith Kally and Rafs Mayet have been feted here alongside up and coming names.
    This year was no different. Cape Town's Shadley Lombard, exhibited his photographs of local female musicians.

    "Basically I could have put out only international acts but I decided to go with younger local South African female jazz artists just to expose them and highlight them and highlight the music industry and the jazz scene in South Africa," Lombard said.
    Shadley has been taking pictures since he was 15, and says he owes his success to various mentors who gave him a chance to develop his talents.

    "For me ultimately, my inspiration and my seriousness of the art form came through the late John Rubython and the late Aziz Tassiem who really inspired me to take photography seriously and to do it and yes, I think it's basically those two people that really made me."
    The Jazz Festival itself ended on March 29, but not before Zimbabwe's most famous musician Oliver Mtukudzi could take the stage to thrill the crowd with his modern take on traditional Zimbabwean tunes.
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