Swimming Upstream

Not just another photography project…

Swimming Upstream is a new project by Dutch photographer Kathalijne van Zutphen, capturing both the visages and the insights of young Cape Town creatives.

In a series of portraits coupled with one-on-one interviews, Kathalijne speaks to emerging and established DJs, musicians, filmmakers, actors, authors and illustrators about how they got started, perennial challenges within the creative industry, experiences in marketing themselves, and thorny issues like file sharing and copyright – all in an attempt to discover what drives them, and the difficulties they face in the current digital age.

All the artists in the series were photographed in locations specifically chosen to complement their unique identities, cumulatively sketching Kathalijne’s own interpretation of the Cape Town landscape.

As one of the most popular haunts of artistically inclined Capetonians, the Grand Daddy Hotel provides an ideal locale for Kathalijne´s work. The Swimming Upstream exhibition features ten exquisite Diasec framed archival prints, as well as video and stills on digital screens throughout the Grand Daddy Hotel.

Opening night will include a video by Cait Pansegrouw and Pierre de Villiers, introduction by Verity Price and DJ Akio will be on the decks.

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