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Nadine Hutton

Born in Johannesburg in 1976, Hutton has been a photojournalist for 12 years. She has extensive photojournalism experience and was the chief photographer of the Mail & Guardian for five of her nine years on staff there.

She has always been more than just a photographer – she writes, designs and manages projects. She has moved beyond the constraints of the still image and the language of photojournalism, and practices as a visual artist in video installation and performance art.

As a photojournalist her interest is directed towards in-depth documentation of stories that may not necessarily seem newsworthy. She tells stories – narratives that are a neglected part of the process of the last decade and which have important implications for the understanding of Africa. Much of her work is concerned with social issues, including the rights of women, and the dispossessed and those whose voices are rarely heard above the furor.

She has worked extensively with art projects and artists internationally, making collaborative works and also producing video documentaries around art.

She has a BA in Communication and English (University of South Africa) and a Higher Diploma in Journalism (Rhodes University).

She provides regular services to international media agencies and is a contracted photographer to Bloomberg News. Her work has been published in many publications.

In 2006 she was awarded the Ruth First Fellowship at Wits University. In the project she documented her mother’s survival as a survivor of gender violence. Her family comes from a poverty stricken community where violence against women and children are endemic and the project was a testament to how far they (and she personally) have come out of those circumstances.

She has been a finalist in the Spier Contemporary Art Award, has had several solo exhibitions and has formed part of several group exhibitions. Her artwork is in the Johannesburg Art Gallery collection and various private collections.

Last year she was awarded a six-month residency at the Bag Factory and, as part of it, curated a two-night show of performance, video and installation – The Funhouse, A Mass Media Freak Show collaboration with over 20 artists, including Fred Koenig, Toni Morkel, Anthea Moys, Robert Colman and Brian Webber.

As an artist-in-residence at The Bag Factory, she is currently working on several art and media projects.

Awards & Acknowledgements
- 2008 Bag Factory Artists Residency, Fordsburg Studios
- 2007 Spier Contemporary Art Finalist for Nightwatch Zion
- 2006 Ruth First-Heinrich Boell Fellowship, Wits University Investigative ..Journalism Workshop
- 2006 MTN Fujifilm Photo Press Awards, highly commended in picture story ..category
- 2005 MTN Fujifilm Photo Press Awards, winner of the picture story category
- 2005 National Arts Council of South Africa visual arts grant
- 2004 FujiFilm Photo Press Awards, highly commended in picture story category
- 2003 Nikon Photo Contest International Third Prize
- 2003 & 2004 & 2005 Joop Swart World Press Masterclass nominee
- 1997 Standard Bank Jazz Festival Scholarship Runner-up
- 1997 Rhodes/ Kentmere Photojournalism Scholarship

Solo Exhibitions
- 2009 I have fallen, photographs of the white poor, outdoor public art exhibition  ..Alexandra, and Sandton
- 2008 Written on her face: My mother’s story, Constitution Hill for 16 Days of ..Activism against Violence funded by the CSVR
..Funhouse: A Mass Media Freakshow, The Fordburg Artists Studios funded by ..the Fordsburg Artist Studios & The Ford Foundation, additional funding by ..Cultures France & the French Institute
- 2006 Written on her face: My mother’s story, Constitution Hill. Ruth First ..Fellowship funded by the Ruth First Foundation & the Heinrich Boell Stiftung ..through the Wits Investigative Journalism Programme
..Night Watch: A series of stolen images, 2006, The Parking Gallery

Film & Theatre Festivals
- 2008 Too Close for Comfort: Belonging and displacement in the work of South ..African video artists, October – November 2008, ‘Performing South Africa ..Festival’, Hebbel Theatre, Berlin & Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg
..The International Black Documentary Festival (IBDF) – The High Museum of ..Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
..18th African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival in Milan, April 2008: ..selection in the African Documentary and Non-Fiction Competition
..Dressed to Kill… Killed to Dressed… 2008/2009: A dance theatre piece by ..Robyn Orlin with video by Nadine Hutton: Festival Dance Umbrella, ..Johannesburg; Théâtre de la Place, Liège; Grand Théâtre, Luxembourg; ..Festival Art Danse Bourgogne, Dijon; Les Antipodes, Le Quartz, Brest; Théâtre ..de la Ville, Paris; Le Lieu Unique, Nantes; Théâtre de Cavaillon, L’Arsenal; ..Metz Wolubilis, Bruxelles

Group Exhibitions
- 2009 World Summit on Arts & Culture: Interventions curated by Brett Bailey, ..Johannesburg.
..Domestic, Goethe on Main, Johannesburg.
..Adding Subtractions, CONTACT _Con-3B10BDF9323 The Bag Factory Artists’ ..Studios, Johannesburg.
- 2008 Crucible, Women in Arts Festival, Newtown, Johannesburg.
..Rights of Passage, Rights of Fealty, CONTACT _Con-3B10BDF9323 The Bag ..Factory Artists’ Studios, Johannesburg.
- 2007 Spier Contemporary Art Festival, Spier Estate, Cape Town; Johannesburg ..Art Gallery; NSA, Durban
..I Love You Positive or Negative, Noisy le Grand, France
..South African Contemporary Photography, Hereford Photography Festival, UK
..Johannesburg Videos, with Steffi Weismann, Gallery Ausland, Berlin
..Positive Pulse Collection, Sun City
..KIN:BE:JOZI: A travelling discourse through the landscapes of Kinshasa, Bern ..and Johannesburg, Joubert Park Project, August House, Johannesburg
- 2006 Women: Photography and the New Media: Imaging the self and body ..through portraiture, The Johannesburg Art Gallery
..I Love You Positive or Negative, Alliance Francaise of Johannesburg
..Natal Law Society, permanent collection
..An African Night with Picasso, The Point Blank Gallery
- 2005 Curated Seeing Women exhibition, and edited the Seeing Women ..publication, Market Theatre Gallery
..MTN/ FujiFilm 2004 Press Awards, travelled nationally in South Africa
- 2004 Inside Aids, FotoMuseum, Antwerp <http://www.polenus.be/>
- 2003 Up front and personal: Political graphics from South Africa and the UK, ..British Council, Johannesburg Art Gallery, IZIKO Museum, Durban Art Gallery
- 2002 Constitutional Court, Permanent exhibition
..Bonani Africa Festival of Photography, Museum Africa, Johannesburg – three ..essays: Aids and women, The Johannesburg Flying Squad and The Ark shelter
..After Apartheid: 8 SA Documentary Photographers, Cape Town Month of ..Photography
- 2000 Visions of the Sacred, Detriot
- 1998 Dance Umbrella, The Grahamstown Festival
- 1997 Music@fest, Rhodes Photojournalism Conference

Filmography
- 2009 Open Street Session
..ILO Give Girls a Chance
..Alien Invasion [or] Burning People is as South African as braaivleis
- 2008 Dressed to Kill… Killed to Dress, 9 films: Rafael; Simon; Adolphus; ..Nhlanhla; Ann; Mcebo; Ignatius; Toni; Vusi, for a dance theatre piece by Robyn ..Orlin with video by Nadine Hutton
..Crucible
..Resurrecting Lady Di
- 2007 DaggaBoys
..African Dream Team, KIN:BE:JOZI
..Ignore Me Turnstile, a collaboration with Gerard Bester
- 2006/7 Nightwatch Zion; Nightwatch Nugget; Nightwatch Bie & Me
- 2006 Written on her face

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