Johno Mellish
The young South African photographer (born in 1991), represented by THK Gallery, is currently having an exhibition at the gallery together with painter Nyasha Marovatsanga. Also exhibiting at the fair, his work combines history, memory and imagination to create “images through the use of constructed photography”, THK explains. “His photographs are a response to histories and personal imaginings, both of which meditate on place and time particular to South Africa”, they continue. Working with source material he finds in the news or books as the starting point, Mellish collaborates with many people on large-scale pictures that find a midpoint between natural and artificial, real and unreal.