Date: 04 September 2026, (1-2pm)
Presenters: Naoya Yoshikawa (Japan) & Inge Norum (Norway)
Address: Venue to be confirmed.
Mentorship Session: The session is FREE but booking is essential.
Date: 04 September 2026, (1-2pm)
Presenters: Naoya Yoshikawa (Japan) & Inge Norum (Norway)
Address: Venue to be confirmed.
Learning from Experience
Photography is learned not only through books and classrooms, but through years of looking, making, questioning and refining one’s craft. Join internationally acclaimed photographers Naoya Yoshikawa (Japan) and Inge Norum (Norway) for an informal mentorship session where they share the knowledge and experience gained over decades behind the camera. Open to students and emerging photographers, the session offers a rare opportunity to discuss photographic practice, creative development, technical decision-making and the lifelong pursuit of seeing.
The session is FREE but you have to book, info@capetownphotofest.co.za
Description:
The Four Kings is a photographic project documenting a single oak tree with four trunks in Kongeeikene. Estimated to be between 500 and 600 years old, the tree was photographed over the course of a year.
Now at the height of its life, it may, under favourable conditions, endure for centuries more, yet it already bears visible signs of wear. The causes remain uncertain, but this project does not seek a scientific explanation. Instead, it takes the tree as a visual and existential point of departure.
“For many years, I have regarded this tree as an extraordinary natural presence. Since 2018, I have consciously turned to subjects that I believe carry significance for the future – forms that embody beauty, vulnerability, and complexity.”The Four Kings is both a tribute and a quiet warning. It documents the tree as an artwork in itself, while also suggesting a longer temporal arc in which it may come to reflect our own relationship to – and destruction of – the natural world. The tree remains still as its surroundings shift. In this, it becomes both witness and mirror.
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Heidi Erdmann info@capetownphotofest.co.za
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