archival fibre-based pigment print

Artwork date: 1999
Signature details: signed
Edition: number 4 from an edition of 12

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image size: 33.5 x 50 cm, sheet size: 38.5 x 55 cm, unframed

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Jodi Bieber’s professional career began covering the 1994 democratic elections in South Africa after attending three short courses at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg. A turning point was her selection to participate in the World Press Masterclass held in the Netherlands in 1996. This opened the door to travel the world on assignment for international magazines and NGOs.Bieber has won numerous international awards, including the Premier Award at World Press Photo in 2010 for her photograph of Bibi Aisha on the cover of Time Magazine. She continued during this time to pursue her own projects and presently spends most of her time working this way. Works from her four monographs, Between Dogs and Wolves – Growing up with South Africa (2006), Soweto (2010), Real Beauty (2014) and Between Darkness and Light, Selected Works: South Africa 1994–2010 (2017), are exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationally and abroad. Exhibition highlights include Rencontres de Bamako, Bamako; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Fondazione Carispezia, Italy; Oulu Museum of Art, Oulu; Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm; Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki; International Center of Photography (ICP), New York; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg; Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein; and Constitution Hill, Johannesburg. Her photographs are represented in significant collections such as the Walther Collection; Pinault Collection; Oppenheimer Collection; Johannesburg Art Gallery; Iziko Museums of South Africa; and the Jean Paul Blachère Foundation. In 2018, to mark the centenary anniversary of women's su"rage in the UK, the Royal Photographic Society named Bieber as one of the Hundred Heroines. In 2019, her photograph of Bibi Aisha was included in The New York Times and CNN top 100 photographs that influenced the previous decade. Sunday School, Nababeep, Northern Cape, 1999 forms part of a larger and significant body of work by Jodi Bieber. Over a ten-year period, she explored the lives of young people living on the fringe of South Africa in the context of her upbringing. Travelling for three months photographing in small isolated communities in the Northern Cape, the photograph was taken in Nababeep – a once prosperouscoal mining town where the depletion of copper forced people from the area to migrate to other places to find employment. The photograph paints a universal humanity with a tinge of melancholy of a province that, through Bieber’s eyes, had been left behind. The photograph’s first publication was in Bieber’s monograph, Between Dogs and Wolves – Growing up with South Africa (Mets and Schilt, Dewi Lewis, Double Storey, Contrasto, and Editions de l’Oeiel, 2006); it was also featured in her monograph Between Darkness and Light, Selected Works: South Africa 1994–2010 (Skira, 2017)Fotografia Europea XII, Italy (2017); LSE Atrium Gallery, London (2016); Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2015); Antalya Photo Festival, Antalya (2015); Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (2014); Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg(2014); Museum Goch,Goch (2013); Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm (2012); The Hereford Photographic Festival, Hereford (2008); Visa Pour L’Image, Perpignan (2002).