Koto Bolofo 2006

Art & Photography/2006/50 min/Reel № 06.001

ByKoto Bolofo

Koto Bolofo: Picture perfect

Entrenching Itself on the International Design Calendar/Recorded 2006

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Koto Bolofo takes art & photography as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in France in 2006, the conversation is grounded in Koto's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Wonderfully entertaining and invaluably wise, photographer Koto Bolofo shares the secrets of making it.

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Koto Bolofo

Paris/France

Koto Bolofo is a South African born photographer, whose work appeared in some of the prestigious publications in the world.