Candice Jansen

Candice Jansen practices in photography as a writer, editor, curator, scholar, archivist, educator and photographer. Over the last two decades her study, research, curation and writing on photography has contributed to the archives, documentation, history, and visibility of underrepresented photographers and understudied cultural histories of the medium. Her doctoral research shed light on the photographic practices of black and indigenous visual activists and photojournalism during apartheid in South Africa. Jansen’s research has supported the development of public image collections at key institutions for African photography that includes a tenure as Curator of Research and Exhibitions at Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg (2019-2021) and a research fellowship through the Centre for Humanities Research and the Mayibuye Centre for Memory, UWC in Cape Town (2022-2024). Jansen is the editor of Black Photo Libraries (2021), a research collection for the remembering, teaching, and publishing of black contributions to photographic history in South Africa.

Photo credit: Nelisiwe Nkosi