Sibusiso Gcaba is a Johannesburg based photographer. He studied the Photography Foundation Course at the Market Photo Workshop in 2016 and completed an Advertising Qualification with Umuzi in 2017 specialising in Multimedia. In 2020, he completed an Introduction To Film And TV Production Course with Skyrink Studios. Recently, he studied an Advanced Photography Course with Through The Lens Collective. Sibusiso has exhibited locally and internationally, notably in group exhibitions at Through The Lens in 2018, 2020 and 2022, The Yaounde Photo Festival in Cameroon 2019, Summer Salon group exhibition at the Bag Factory in 2019. In 2021 he showcased at the FNB Art Joburg Fair. He was a finalist at the Lagos Photo X National Geographic Portfolio Review Award in 2018.

Shadowland

The work resurfaces dreadful life experiences that has been stored and forgotten in the subconscious. Growing up in the urban madness that accepts tragedy and trauma as something to be ignored. In the awakening of how twisted the world is and how I'm struggling to function in it, I'm forced to look deep into my psychological make up and work with the "spirit" to detect what the inner suffering looks like. With the fear that if all is left unattended the foundation might infect my concious to self destruction.

It is said that trauma in other dimensions can be inherited or passed from generation to generation, and it is the responsibility of the enlighten to cleanse the spirit, but it starts with self and "shadow work". I'm using the camera as a portal to connect to what lies deep in the dark subconscious that I carry with me everyday. 

The Photographs are digitally created, and I have sucked out the colour out of them. They are mostly created at night, in the literal darkness of hopelessness. Sometimes in spaces of depressed isolation. I hope for the spirit to speak to indicate light and healing.

Below is a selection of work from his project.