Kelly McCann: Downtown

The Viewfinder Photography Gallery is pleased to present “Downtown”, Kelly McCann's solo exhibition, which is being hosted by The Underground Gallery.

 

Kelly's work documents the day-to-day life of a small settlement within the Hout Bay suburb of  South Africa. Imizamo Yethu is one of over 200 townships whose residents struggle everyday against a severe lack of infrastructure and safe living conditions.

Kelly says “my intention is to document Imizamo, highlighting the continuation of day- to-day living despite the shocking conditions that the residents here contend with. The clothes on the washing line, the children’s toys, the family photographs and the little boy playing with a vuvuzela – the   remnant of the World Cup whirlwind that had held so much hope for those in desperate need of development. These ‘ordinary’ aspects of life are, in a way, just as surprising as the whole reality of life for the inhabitants of Imizamo.”