{"id":55601,"date":"2022-11-17T11:43:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T09:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vistanews\/photography-serves-as-teaching-tool-20221116\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T23:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:11:21","slug":"photography-serves-as-teaching-tool-20221116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vistanews\/photography-serves-as-teaching-tool-20221116\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography serves as teaching tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"embed_36f5c815\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/7696\/a9a5020cc2a342a0838ef592380a312c.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vistanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/84830643b2a8424e90e93ed3ec7e445f.jpg\" title=\"Katleho Lesige, a photographic artists, entered the thought-provoking photo story Surviving Lefat\u00adse into the Phatsoane Henney New Breed Art Competiton. Photos: Marti Will\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Katleho Lesige, a photographic artists, entered the thought-provoking photo story Surviving Lefat\u00adse into the Phatsoane Henney New Breed Art Competiton. Photos: Marti Will<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Katleho Lesige is an up and coming photographic artist who hails from the dusty mining town of Meloding, Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katleho embodies different concepts in his photography, and describes himself as a social photographer. He photographs people, but with a clear message in each of the diverse portfolios he creates in his photo stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI identify a subject and then I take the photograph. The photograph has a message, and I convey this message through my photography. I interview my subject before I take the photograph. Then I research my subject and his or her story, and then I compile my Artists\u2019 Statement or <em><span id=\"U10753788537CzE\" style=\"font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;\">ekphrasis<\/span>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katleho, now based in Bloemfontein, studied Graphic Design at the Motheo College, and completed this course in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is now studying textile design at the Central University of Technology (CUT), Free State in Bloemfontein, though photography remains his passion. <span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI started photography in 2017. I will use my formal qualifications to earn my bread and butter, but my passion keeps me alive,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says he can educate others with his photographs. \u201cMy studies of people will bring about immediate recognition and effect. People will see and people will know,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy photographs shed light on our times with how people identify and progress in their realities.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He recently took part in the Phatsoane Henney New Breed Art Competiton with his photographic story <span>Surviving Lefatse<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work depicts the story of Mamello Nkile who was burned by her ex boyfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The photograph of a severely burned Mamello shows her scars that came about after a gruesome attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The photograph not only addresses gender-based violence (GBV), but also refers to post-traumatic stress disorder and its impact on communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMamello also grew up in Meloding, and the people in this small mining town believe it is alright to beat up women and kids. They think fighting is fine to solve arguments and vendettas. Talking is for cowards and little boys. I have seen more moments of violence than of love, more deaths than parties and more funerals than weddings because of this belief system that\u2019s in Meloding,\u201d says Katleho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says Mamello grew up in this environment with him, as did the man who burned her so badly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were exposed to the same conditions and this image is a reflection of our community\u2019s imperfections and wrong thinking pattern,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katleho says with photography what you see is the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even the plain brown frame that surrounds this thought-provoking image has meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI chose this frame because it is often used in my community to frame inspirational certificates and photographs of important family members, dead or alive, and also for public figures. 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