Roy Zetisky, winner of the South African Photographer of the Year, People’s Choice Award, has currently launched an exhibition of his wildlife photographs at The Lighthouse Coffee Company in Bloubergstrand, Cape {town} Etc reports.
The exhibition will continue until the end of January 2025 and includes his award-winning photograph, as well as a couple of other snapshots that made the shortlist.
‘Meet the artist’ breakfast sessions will be on all weekends and public holidays until the end of January, during which the exhibition will offer A3 prints will be available and a sneak preview of his box set of 5 wildlife books.
These books will be released in 2025.
At the breakfast sessions, guests will also be able to pre-order personalized signed copies of the books.
Zetisky, an award-winning photographer, cinematographer and film Director, is also a recipient of the Best Cinematography Mnet Vuka Award and The F.I.L.M. Best Mentor Award for his work in education of previously disadvantaged filmmakers.
Zetisky was also the former Head of Film at AFDA Film School in Cape Town and has delivered master classes in cinematography and directing at SAE Institute, Orms Film School, The DOCCY Institute and to Postgraduate students at AFDA.
In addition, Zetisky has also sat on the jury for film festivals including The SAFTAs, The Durban International Film Festival and The International Emmy Awards.
His wildlife exhibition includes photographs captured in South Africa and Namibia and a large part of the collection he created at Gondwana Game Reserve near Mossel Bay, where he lived for a few years in the free-roaming area.
Zetisky’s exhibition of his analogue works from the eighties has just concluded at the Barrydale Arts Festival, with both his exhibitions having opened on the same weekend in mid-December.
This current exhibition features large prints of wildlife up close and personal, as well as themed photographs showing wildlife relationships with each other and with their environment.
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