00:00My name is Sabiso Seleka. I'm a photographer based in Soweto.
00:04My work is about documenting people, everyday people, telling their stories, giving them a voice.
00:09It's important to give awareness to what is happening in our communities
00:14so that we can tell stories of poverty and segregation
00:20and the difficulties that people go through on a daily basis.
00:24They're not giving an opportunity or even a platform to share their struggles, their daily problems.
00:34So I feel there was a need for me to do that, to document and tell their stories first.
00:40How are you doing?
00:42I'm doing it.
00:44I'm doing it.
00:46I'm doing it.
00:48I'm doing it.
00:50I'm doing it.
00:52I'm doing it.
00:54I'm doing it.
00:56I'm doing it.
00:58I'm doing it.
01:00To mostly try to empower people, you know, black people who are struggling,
01:04who come from difficult circumstances and they also need to see hope and find hope within themselves
01:12so that they know that there's like a better future and a brighter one ahead.
01:16I think it gives me hope.
01:18It gives me life to be able to share my work with the world so that they know what people go through
01:26and possibly there might be help that comes for those people.
01:30I think the current situation in South Africa is a bit difficult, you know, like it's even difficult to really portray.
01:40But within my photographs, you can see the difficulty that exists in SA.
01:47The portrayal of Soweto in media is, it mainly focuses on stories that don't exist, you know.
01:54Because of most people that portray it aren't from here.
01:57So yeah, they tell the poverty in a shameful way.
02:01Not the way it is.
02:03However, I can't think of the importance of
02:11giving up, I go to vue off a lot, I just want to think of the people who have to make this problem.
02:18I want to see why I got it's a great problem.
02:21I got it.
02:22I got it.
02:23I got it.
02:24I got it.
02:25I got it.
02:26I like it.
02:27I'm happy.
02:29I got it.
02:30And I have to rant a little bit,
02:32Behind the lens, you capture the powerful stories
02:58without the stories being sugar-coated
03:01or someone misrepresenting those stories.
03:04But the lens, you cannot cheat the lens.
03:05You cannot lie from what is being told through the lens.
03:09I would like to believe the messages that my pictures carry
03:11are messages of hope and resilience, you know,
03:14that our people, they want better.
03:17Hence, they wake up every morning
03:18and they strive to do the best they can
03:22with the little resources they are given.
03:24I call it beautiful chaos.
03:26I think from every chaos, there is a sense of beauty, you know?
03:29The fact that people don't give up,
03:32even though the dynamics are not great, you know?
03:36Like there's like a lot of challenges,
03:38but they still strive to do best, to succeed.
03:41So there is beauty in their daily hustle,
03:44cause they don't give up.
03:45They make sure that they push, you know?
03:48They push the boundaries.
03:49So that's the beauty about it.
03:52When I'm not in a good state,
03:53it's difficult for me to see those moments,
03:56to tell the stories, you know?
03:58But as soon as I'm in tune with myself
04:00and I'm a bit happy and I'm in a good place,
04:03then I'm able to share the stories with people.
04:06I can do better.
04:08I can provide content that is more decent
04:12and the stories are more, they have more weight.
04:16You know, I'm not just documenting for the fun of it,
04:19but documenting cause I want to tell those stories
04:21and share it with people.
04:26But I'm gonna want to have moreese things around you.
04:28I can just scale the story.
04:29No I read an experience.
04:29So that's how you're going to get there.
04:30How is it the τωνynic universe?
04:33Peter how is the Notice of the A lamp and camera
04:34in the spells?
04:36I don't know when I start the design
04:38and I got a pair of video.
04:39And I'm able to show lying down to anyone
04:40and I don't tell you what it's worth it.
04:42So turn it forward,
04:43I can scan it back to you
04:45and get back and see you next day.
04:47As I//G
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