Lightfarm Fine Art Printing

Julia Kaunda from Modzi Arts Gallery in Zambia came in to scan some negatives of late Zambian artist Henry Tayali (1943-1987). Predominantly a painter, sculptor and printmaker, the gallery will showcase a new medium, recently discovered, that the artist had been working with. Tayali is considered to be Zambia's most famous painter.
The images scanned are from 1972 to 1977.

✨See these images at Modzi Arts Gallery stall at the Joburg Art Fair this coming weekend✨

Modzi Arts Gallery was established in 2017 in itself a growing voice within Contemporary Zambian art within African contexts and has been at the forefront of reframing the Zambian art market. Part of the annual edition of FNB Art Joburg since 2019, they strongly believe in the slow steady growth and innovative approach within Traditional and Contemporary African art as well as within the diaspora. Continuing to participate in the FNB Art Joburg is an expensive and stressful journey, as a not-for-profit galley. They seek to find alternative spaces to share stories that have not been seen on the continent and shine a light on artists they collaborate with in the context of Zambia and around the region. The gallery is a process based space that runs several artistic and curating residencies.

Throwback to printing for his show at Goodman Gallery, opening in Cape Town tomorrow 🎉

Repost: Opening this month in Cape Town: Mikhael Subotzky’s solo exhibition ‘Home Building Ideas for South Africa (or A Cape Town Landscape)’

The show includes new photographs, paintings and installations that inquire into the relationship between landscape, structure and time — how each is marked, recorded, imprinted and inscribed by images, which in turn carry the trails and traces of these abstracted social constructions.

🗓️ Opening reception
Saturday, 17 August from 10:30

🎙️ Artist talk at 11:00
Conversation Between Friends with Mikhael Subotzky, Ravelle Pillay and Lindokuhle Sobekwa

Fresh out the printer, peek the details! 👀

LightFarm is excited to have partnered with marketing digital agency Fresh Af to produce some FRESH prints for Spaces Africa, a platform committed to reimagining and redefining creative spaces since 2016.

LightFarm is always keen to engage vibrant artistic communities realise their creative (and branding) dreams.

Repost: Reposted from .online Born in 1999 in Libode, Eastern Cape, Vuyo Mabheka is a visual artist and photographer based in Johannesburg. ⁠
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Popihuise (the Xhosa vernacular version of the Afrikaans word for doll house) explores the artist's lived experience through collaged still images, contrasting the childhood memories and the toys he would play with while surrounded by the reality of life in a South African township. ⁠
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Mabheka is the recipient of the Images Vevey Special Jury Prize 2023/2024 for his proposal Popihuise.⁠
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Featured here: Vuyo Mabheka, Top Zinto, 2021, price on request. Presented by Afronova Gallery.⁠
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A love letter to four iconic South African subcultures. Moulded and inspired by the people that represent these subcultures. A conversation between what has been and what is to become.

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Brooke, Government Mlungu, Nell 047, Lotta, Mkhovu, Mateboho, Peterson, Dimakatso, Matzidi, Romeo, Kabelo, Andile.

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Man, I’m honoured to be part of this ⭐️

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Reposted from .online : Alice Mann's 'Avondale Primary Drum Majorettes'. Born in 1991, Alice Mann is a South African photographic artist who’s intimate portraiture essays explore notions of picture making as an act of collaboration. ⁠
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Alice Mann will be showing work at the RMB Latitudes Art Fair this May with Afronova Gallery.⁠
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Invisible Threads are the Strongest Ties, a compelling survey exhibition into the artistic journey of Ayana V. Jackson over the past decade and marks the artist’s first major exhibition in Mexico.

The exhibition features a selection of photographs from various series by the artist, including Archival Impulse (2011-2013), Dear Sarah (2016), Wild as the Wind (2015), Intimate Justice in the Stolen Moment (2018), Additionally, it will unveil an exciting new body of work from the most recent series You Forgot to See Me Coming (2023).

For Jackson, this exhibition represents a homecoming. Her journey into photography began precisely in Mexican territory, where she portrayed Afro-descendant populations in the Costa Chica and Veracruz in her series African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth. While this series is not part of the current exhibition, it marked a pivotal point in the evolution of her approach to photography.

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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic Lightfarm is observing social distancing and as such open by appointment only. Please feel free to make an online or studio appointment [email protected] 0114030179

Grade with the pros. Let Lightfarm support you in retouching, styling and compositing your images. The estimated time for a natural retouch is 5-20 min an image, stylisation 30min-1hr and compositing or image repair at 45min-3hr an image. Please mail your request to [email protected] for a customised quote.

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We're extremely proud to have worked closely with the lockdown collection over the past few months in photographing and printing of the artworks included in the edition portfolios.


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We are really excited about our collaboration with Nomaza Nongqunga from in exposing artists to reproductions and prints of their work which are currently showing at the .

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The team at and collaborated on an beautiful evening dedicated to women of colour in the contemporary fine art industry.
Works beautifully housed custom conservation framing carefully curated by and educate on the art of framing.

So happy to have my work part of the collaboration. 🕯

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Currently showing . Go check out the exhibition if you haven’t done so already.

Thank you to for these amazing prints:

Modimo O Lerato, 2019
Digital print on Ilford Mono Silk Warmtone paper
415 x 594 mm
Image © Siyabonga Mahlaba

Untitled, 2019
Digital print on Ilford Mono Silk Warmtone paper
415 x 594 mm
Image © Siyabonga Mahlaba

Glo Net, 2019
Digital print on Ilford Mono Silk Warmtone paper
415 x 594 mm
Image © Siyabonga Mahlaba
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It feels like Christmas! Unwrapping a print for the first time I am always so excited and so happy with the amazing quality of the print from

This is ‘Izibele’ meaning Grace in Xhosa. The Mandala in gold behind her head is a symbolic representation of the universe. The circle is a universal symbol with extensive meanings and symbolizes the idea that life is never ending and everything is connected. It is the symbol for the and the , and represents the power of , wholeness, the great rhythms of Mother Earth, the cycle of time, infinity and eternity.

Izibele is available as a series of 30 limited edition prints. Message below for more info. If you’re quick you can have your edition in time for Christmas!

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I'm proud of myself and how far I've come,never thought I'd ever be able to print my work one day.
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Thank you to the people for assisting me☺

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I am so grateful and excited to share that limited edition prints of my work are now available through

Thank you so much for this incredible initiative, and thank you for the beautiful work.

This piece part of my canvas series titled 'Amacici'. 2020

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Siyabonga Mahlaba
Glo Net, 2019
Digital Print on Ilford Mono Silk Warmtone Paper, 250 gsm
415 x 594 mm
Edition of 5

Siyabonga Mahlaba is a South African visual artist and photographer from Bethlehem, Free State. His work addresses how ideologies inform architecture, drawing from his background and upbringing in Bethlehem. The focus of his current project is the Dutch Reformed Church structures in his hometown and the broader South Africa. In an ongoing series of works, Mahlaba considers how racial disparities are represented and entrenched by the structure and condition of church buildings.

Siyabonga Mahlaba's work is included in 'holdfast' an exhibition about hands and holding curated by Kundai Moyo and Chloë Reid at the gallery.

holdfast is open for viewing from 14 November 2020.

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AVAILABLE NOW 🖤🔥🎨
New Édition - Exclusively available from Undiscovered-canvas.com (Link in Bio or click the image for Instagram shopping direct link)

is pleased to announce a new limited edition print by . Printed by .