Daleside

PhotoSaintGermain

Daleside, Afrique du Sud

2015 - 2020

Cyprien Clément-Delmas

Lindokuhle Sobekwa

Since 2015, thanks to the support of Rubis Mécénat, the French photographer Cyprien Clément-Delmas and the South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa have been developing photographic work documenting Daleside, an Afrikaner suburb south-east of Johannesburg.

Daleside is a small isolated Afrikaner town in South Africa’s Gauteng province. At a distance, Daleside keeps its white population inward-looking, forgotten in an old “separate development” project. For five years, the two artists were able to revisit together the validity of this white enclave through photographs in dialogue. The two photographers painted a portrait of Daleside, approached the places and the inhabitants, mostly minors or precarious, awakening their dreams or revealing their distress.

This series was exhibited in Paris on the occasion of PhotoSaintGermain in January 2021.

Curated by Valérie Fougeirol

Cyprien Clément-Delmas

Cyprien Clément-Delmas (b. 1986) is a French photographer and film-maker who lives and works in Barcelona.

Adopting a documentary approach, he embeds himself in communities and creates intimate and realistic portraits over several years. His first full-length documentary film, Boy of War, follows a young Ukrainian soldier going to the front. Several of his short films have won awards at festivals (Intrusion, Day One, The Last Tape). He combines this with his work for Rubis Mécénat, running photography workshops with young people in the townships of Johannesburg (South Africa) with Of Soul and Joy, and in Kingston (Jamaica) with InPulse. He also leads workshops in prisons.

Lindokuhle Sobekwa

Lindokuhle Sobekwa is a South African photographer and a member of Magnum Photos since 2020. He lives and works in Thokoza.

He discovered photography through Of Soul and Joy in 2012. In 2017, he was awarded the Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Scholarship,. In 2018, he is again awarded by the Magnum Foundation for "Nyaope", a photographic series on drug use in South African townships. Since 2012, his work has been exhibited in South Africa, France, the US, the Netherlands, Norway and Iran. In 2023, Sobekwa was awarded the inaugural John Kobal Foundation Fellowship.