Twenty Ten

Oupa Nkosi

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Oupa Nkosi is a photographer for the Mail & Guardian in South Africa. He began taking photos in 1998 with a camera he bought at a pawnshop in Johannesburg. In 1999, he enrolled at the Market Photography Workshop (MPW) in Newtown where he was later employed. In 2001, he did an internship at the Sowetan Newspaper and, later that year, freelanced for the Sunday Times.

His work was selected for a Japanese photo competetion and is now on permanent display at the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art in Japan. In 2005, he was invited to Mali, Bamako with other photographers to document the way they saw and understood the country. Their work was exhibition in the library hall and later produced in a book. He participated in a workshop in Joucas, France with other African photographers, which opened his eyes to how other countries see Africans and how Africans see each other. In 2005, he was invited to Zimbabwe to present his work at a Gwanza festival.

In 2004, he started running outreach community projects for the MPW. He later began an internship with the Mail & Guardian newspaper where he is now permanently employed. His hobbies include running, reading, traveling, music, family time and dancing.