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AFTERDARK: Kuilfontein, Springfontein, OFS II, 2003, Colour photograph mounted on wood, 70 X 50cm
Flounce: Kloof Neck, Camps Bay, 2002, Colour photographs mounted on wood, 140 X 49.5cm
Babes: Lauren, 1999, Colour photograph, 34 X 22cm
Babes: Lilly, 1999, Colour photograph, 34 X 22cm
Stillness in Motion: 980301/2A, 1998. Colour photograph. 70 X 50cm
Salt #11, 1999, Colour photograph, 105 X 67cm

    RACY LINDNER GANDER

    The photographic work of Tracy Lindner Gander challenges stereotyped assumptions of photographic practice in South Africa. Eschewing the country's rich documentary and reportage traditions, her photographic projects often veer between polar extremes, sometimes playful, yet again deceptively serious - often in the same context.

    Her work utilises a number of archetypal visual languages - landscape and portraiture being some of the most recurrent. Often sceptical of the truth of the visible image, Gander's work has at times sought to describe a world that exists beyond the realism promised by the lens. Artifice, blur and darkness have all at some time or another figured as strategies in her work, all of them serving their part in the photographer's evolving quest to explore that which does not simply declare itself visible in a photograph.

    Sean O'Toole, November 2003

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