Bongani Khumalo

Photographer
  
The chosen one
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Nationality: South African
Biography: Bongani Khumalo (B. 1997) is an emerging documentary photographer. Born in Johannesburg, Bongani is now Based in the Eastside of Johannesburg  Vosloorus. His work is focused on documentary and street photography and telling his childhood... MORE
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The chosen one
Updated Jun 2022
Topics Arts & Entertainment, Documentary, Environment, Pandemic, People, Photography, Still life, Street, Travel
Summary
The Chosen One is a social commentary and documentary  series that explore the new norm of the world during the pandemic. Its a that is narrated  in black and white
photographs that focus on a specific Bus that moves from Vosloorus east rand to Johannesburg.
The Chosen One is a social commentary and documentary  series of black and white
photographs that focus on a specific Bus that moves from Vosloorus east rand to
In Johannesburg Town, people use the Bus every day for different reasons. I got fascinated by the Bus during the world crisis (COVID 19 pandemic), and as a creative, I was recreating the stories of the post-apartheid stories that came along with our parents when they told us the one and only BUS they used to go to the BIG town named Johannesburg for them to get Jobs to sustain their families,
by then I thought those stories really follow me when I go to Johannesburg using a BUS.
Stories that build the new 20th century generation to tell the stories. I felt documenting the bus and the
commuters in it, that use the bus daily and most importantly how I see the journey to school was
important to the community. Techniques of movement is to exaggerate the ride experience of a state of
transit and a freedom of movement in the bus and of course the chaotic emotions that school kids and
adults around the space.