SIMMONDS ST CNR MARKET ST, RISSIK ST, PRITCHARD ST JOHANNESBURG CENTRAL
2018
Photographic print on paper
Image [37,5 x 56,5] Sheet [55,8 x 73,2] cm
Jo Ractliffe’s cut-and-pasted photographs of inner-city Johannesburg offer an alternative view of the city. Fragments of streets, buildings and intersections combine into a disjointed, unsettled image that resists conventional documentary form, while suggesting a more open, participatory experience of urban space than one shaped by ownership or control.