BOOK: FOOTPRINTS | ANDREW TSHABANGU | TAIV FOTO BOOK CLUB

Andrew Tshabangu’s Footprints reflects on memory, movement, and the traces people leave behind through everyday life and migration. Through a deeply personal photographic language, Tshabangu documents landscapes, interiors, and fleeting moments that speak to displacement, spirituality, labour, and belonging within South Africa’s social fabric. The photographs move between urban and rural spaces, often carrying a quiet and contemplative tone. Rather than focusing on spectacle, Tshabangu’s images attend to atmosphere, absence, and the emotional residue held within places and people. The work is widely recognised for its poetic visual approach and its meditation on Black life, memory, and transition in post-apartheid South Africa. Thank you to the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts at Wits for allowing us to film and feature their copy of Footprints. Instrumental by EMAMKAY