Catalogue of the photographic series Daleside by French photographer Cyprien Clément-Delmas and South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa, commissioned by Rubis Mécénat.
Text by Sean O’Toole
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 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.
Cyprien Clément-Delmas & Lindokuhle Sobekwa
Daleside, Afrique du Sud
2015 - 2020
