dóttir photography

I am a South African art educator with Icelandic and South African family and heritage. This hybrid identity has influenced my choice in the name Dóttir photography. Dóttir meaning daughter in Icelandic. It is an archive of my photographic expression through diverse photographic genres and projects.

I have a Postgraduate Certificate in Education and Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts specialising in Film and Media Studies from the University of Cape Town. I have exhibited as part of group exhibitions and worked as a curator and gallery assistant both in Cape Town and London.

My final years BA Fine Art series entitled Cloneurbia, was included in numerous exhibitions, both locally (Cape Town Month of Photography) and internationally (Next Wave Festival, Melbourne) and was published in Itch magazine (Bell Roberts Publishing). My projects have been publised in two recent publications: “A Queer Thing Reflections on the Art Exhibition Swallow My Pride” (Duke University Press, November 7, 201) and “Not No Place, Johannesburg, Fragments of Spaces and Times” (Fanele, 2013). “A Queer Thing” co written with Dale Washkansky focuses on our 2010 art exhibition Swallow My Pride, a visceral response to the commercialization of gay culture in Cape Town and a critique of notions of queerness and its visibility in the public sphere. In “Not No Place” co written and edited by Dorothee Kreutzfeldt and Bettina Malcomess, fragments including some of my photographs ( the Sandton Sun lobby and a Men’s Outfitter’s interior)are presented.

I have nine years experience teaching Visual Art and Design to high school learners at a diverse range of schools including St Cyprians School, St George’s Grammar School, Tableview High School and The Childrens Art Centre in Walmer Estate. I also have facilitated a number of photography related workshops aimed at university students, designers and crafters at the University of Cape Town as well as the Cape Town Craft and Design Institute. I am currently working as a Visual Arts teacher at Fish Hoek High School in Cape Town, South Africa.