Diesel & Dust Photography Exhibition

International Thu 05-08-2010

Diesel & Dust Photography Exhibition
By a Correspondent

'My photos are a record of my life journeying trough Africa. I travel not to get somewhere in specific; instead I meander and drive for the mere love of moving through slowly changing people and landscapes. I love getting involved in the happy and sad essence of the vast South African lands. There is a haphazard unpredictability that runs trough all these different areas.My stories are about the somewhat strange, the odd, the trivial and the funny.’ - Obie Oberholzer | Quote From Amstelgallery.com

Shepherd Near Ongeluksnek | Photo Obie Oberholzer

An internationally acclaimed South African photographer is to have a solo exhibition at an East London art gallery.

Petrus Cornelius Jacobus “Obie” Oberholzer will have an exhibition called Diesel & Dust, in association with the Photographers Gallery ZA in Cape Town, at the Ann Bryant Galley.

The exhibition, hosted by The Friends of the Ann Bryant, will be running through August and Oberholzer will be signing autographs on the first night.

Basils Tame Ox Watching Silvia | Photo Obie Oberholzer

Secretary of The Friends of the Ann Bryant, Alison Batting, said members were “incredibly excited”.

“He is an international photographer. It is good (for the gallery) to have someone of his calibre here,” said Batting.

Batting said she believed the exhibition would bring change to the gallery. “This will attract a different crowd of people. The photographic community will all be here ... we have not had an exhibition like this in a long time,” Batting added.

Oberholzer, known as the father of colour photography in South Africa, lectured at Natal Technikon and was professor of photography in the fine art department of Rhodes University, until his retirement in 2002. He has also published several coffee table books.

Coffins In Lesotho | Photo Obie Oberholzer

Born near Pretoria, Oberholzer studied graphic design at Stellenbosch University and he also studied at the Bavarian State Institute of Photography in Munich, Germany. He also did his masters in photography in Germany.

The exhibition will run from August 5 to September 12. The official opening on August 5 is at 6.30pm and tickets cost R50.

For more information visit: http://www.annbryant.co.za/ or contact Siya Boya at: siya.boya@yahoo.com

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