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Hotel Yeoville by Terry Kurgan
Hotel Yeoville by Terry Kurgan
Yeoville is one of the most diverse suburbs in Johannesburg, home to migrants from all across Africa. In 2008, artist Terry Kurgen, in collaboration with the African Centre for Migration and Society at Wits University, began 'Hotel Yeoville'. She wanted to find stories about the ordinary lives of migrant in Johannesburg. The project was both online and housed in the new public library in Yeoville. It comprised a website, a photowall, and a series of private booths in which members of the public were invited to tell their own stories through video, photography and texts, using different digital interfaces and online applications. Over the course of a year, this project came to represent an extraordinary, multi-layered document of a segment of one of Johannesburg's most vibrant communities.
Author Terry Kurgan
Published 2013
Format Hardback
Full colour
256 pages
ISBN 9780986985096
250 × 215 mm
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