Candice Jansen

Candice Jansen writes on photography. Her post-graduate studies started at Duke University where Jansen completed a Masters of Liberal Studies as an American Association of University Women Fellow in 2014. She spent a year at Duke’s Centre for Documentary Studies as Exhibition Assistant before conducting her doctoral research at WiSER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) as a PHD fellow in Art History. Her dissertation, COLOURED BLACK: The Life & Works of South African Photographers, Cedric Nunn and Ernest Cole (2019) was completed at Northwestern University’s Program for Critical Theory in the Global South, as a Pre-Doctoral Fellow. She is responsible for research, archives, & exhibitions programming at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg.

Photo credit: Nelisiwe Nkosi