The Market Photo Workshop is a school of photography, a gallery, and a project space in Johannesburg, South Africa, founded in 1989 by David Goldblatt.
[3][4][5] It offers training in visual literacy for neglected and marginalized parts of South African society.
The Market Photo Workshop offers training in visual literacy for neglected and marginalized parts of South African society.
[6] Early on, its visual output focused on social documentary photography, but has now expanded to include "more expressive, conceptual, and self oriented or community-focused work".
To focus only on technique, without cultivating a critical vocabulary of image-making, would have reinforced the logic of apartheid, which accommodated for low-level black artisans.