Hello, I'm Kwena K. Chokoe 

b. 1987, Johannesburg.

I have been photographing since my intensive studies in technical analogue photography 15 years ago and I am seriously looking to get published. My body of work just keeps increasing in volume and needs a book into which it can spill.

My process is such that I constantly shoot what is around me, then later compile the images to reveal and 'postulate' a pattern in nature, behaviour, culture; or to narrate a fiction using real-life captures.  

I consider myself a photo artist. Galleries, look this way :)

Agencies,  I am open to doing editorial work, but only shoot celluloid.

Auto-manifesto

All the art is already in my thoughts

It is vindicated by my observations

Which I compose in photographs

That exist in instant-infinite tension

Apart from my photography,

I work remotely in the arts and culture sector, independently for many years before, but now in the development space. I am currently working on the institutional development of an arts fund, for which I am the former grant manager. I am open to consulting on other such projects, as well as  get involved in Global South exchanges.

I also have a jewellery business Wingkaba that I quietly create for. It allows me to explore gemmology and design, which are two other passions of mine that I make sure not to neglect.