KOYABE
Exploring aspects of indigenous heritage, both referenced and re-imagined, Koyabe is a photo narrative series that considers notions of fantasy and fiction through crafted portraits. Rooted in the real, these images nonetheless blend a sense of the magical with the mundane, transforming the seemingly ordinary into something extraordinary. South African photographer Alastair Whitton, in collaboration with model of Kenyan descent Bianca Koyabe, presents fictional characters that allude to a former time and place while simultaneously imagining them in possible new fantastical futures. Celebratory in their intent, these portraits focus on presenting the viewer with powerful, poetic and playful images taken as it were from ‘another world’.
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Shelter
2022, Baryta print, Edition 3 + 1 AP
HOMETOWN
This ongoing series by South African photgrapher Alastair Whitton explores notions of belonging and displacement within the shifting socio-political context of Cape Town where he lives. These images capture the fleeting and oftentimes fragile moments of everyday life in the local urban landscape.
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Tent
2019, Baryta print, 30x40cm, Edition: 5 + 2 AP
A FOREIGN LAND
A Foreign Land is a photo narrative series by South African photographer Alastair Whitton that considers the mechanisms of memory and the mapping of geographies in a Post-Apartheid democratic South Africa. Through the lens, Whitton explores what he refers to as “the architecture of time and the poetics and politics of place”.
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Centre Pompidou
2018, Piezograph, Edition: 3 + 1 AP
METROPOLIS
South African photographer Alastair Whitton has made several trips to London, New York and Paris. These world capitals have been documented by celebrated photographers extensively over many decades. Metropolis represents Whitton’s homage to these iconic cities and offers the viewer distinct, and at times unexpected, views of the architecture, interiors and streets of these celebrated metropoles.
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Goggles
2014, archival pigment print on museum glass, 40x30cm, Edition: 3 + 1AP