Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo is a photographer based in Lawley, Johannesburg. He uses his family-run shebeen as a studio in which to investigate themes of firsthand and generational trauma, violence, and memory. Hlatshwayo has been growing increasingly curious in various materialities as a medium of expression. He was mentored by the photographer Jabulani Dhlamini and photography curator and educator John Fleetwood. 

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One of the focuses of my residency would be in collaborating with sound/song and a selected piece of writing as a means of extending his ongoing body of work Umnyakazo (movement), which explores notions of movement, stillness, and moments in-between and deals with themes of grief, death, birth, and memory.