Vanessa Cowling from the Michaelis Sustainable Darkroom project has been invited to exhibit her work “Fixing the Shadows” – the outcome of her sustained research into plant-based printing – at the Biennale Photo Mulhouse in Thann, France in June 2024.
Benjamin Wittenberg, a student at the University of Cape Town’s Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa (iCWild), spotted a honey badger just above campus on the 3rd of April this year. Honey badgers, scientifically known as Mellivora capensis and colloquially referred to as ratels, are native to various regions across Africa, ranging from the … Read more
We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2023 Campus Wild UCT Photography competition. We invited you to send us images of the campus observed, of other-than-human species engaged on the campus. We received many wonderful images and are immensely grateful for your participation. It was a tough choice, but we chose the following four … Read more
You have twelve days left to enter our Campus Wild UCT Photography Competition. Send us your best photographs of the campus observed and stand a chance to win vouchers from ORMS Print Room and Framing. See our most recent submissions on our Instagram. Remember, you have an unlimited number of entries!
2023 second-year photography students add extensions to the Sustainable Darkroom Garden under the guidance of Vanessa Cowling and Svea Josephy.
Send us your best photographs of the campus observed and stand a chance to win vouchers from ORMS Print Room and Framing!
The 2022 second year photography students recently extended the Hidding photography garden with the support of Khusela Ikamva, Vanessa Cowling, Fortune Ngwenya, Svea Josephy and Fritha Langerman
Fritha Langerman’s 2012-13 exhibition R-A-T will be re-curated on the UCT’s Upper Campus at the start of 2023. This exhibition draws attention to the commensal Rattus norvegicus and its social relationship to humans. In this context it also focusses on the impact of rodent poisoning on the animal populations that share the campus and surrounds.
Noelene le Cordier, Reggie Mayman, Refilwe Mofokeng and Nicoli Nattrass’ May 2022 paper looks at the history and current situation of recycling at UCT http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/cssr/pub/wp/467
