LEBOHANG KGANYE レボハン・ハンイェ

Lebohang Kganye came to photography accidentally. She initially persued journalism, but after failing to get into school she enrolled at David Goldblatt's revered Market Photo Workshop, where she found her calling. Her practice now spans photography, animation, installation, and textile art, with a deep engagement with literature as well as theatre and history.

Kganye presents her first major presentation in Japan at KYOTOGRAPHIE 2026, bringing together five significant bodies of work: Keep the Light Faithfully, Mohlokomedi wa Tora, Mosebetsi wa Dirithi, The Sea Is History and Ke Lefa Laka: Her-story. Together, these series examine how personal and historical narratives are formed, fractured and reimagined.

Through cut-out silhouettes, staged photographs, diorama lightboxes, fabric, shadow and sculptural interventions, Kganye composes layered worlds where fragments of personal histories from South Africa overlap with wider political and postcolonial realities. Across these series, she questions ethics and what it means to inherit an incomplete archive: how we fill gaps, how we protect the histories of others and how fiction can sometimes offer a more honest form of truth.