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About the South African photographer, Carla LIESCHING
Carla LIESCHING is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, writing, collage, sculpture, installation, bookmaking and design. Grounded in early experiences growing up in apartheid South Africa, her work considers the intersections of representation, knowledge and power—with a focus on colonial histories and enduring constructions of race and geography. As part of her socially engaged practice, she is also a youth educator focused on photography, visual literacy and self-publishing as vehicles for expression and empowerment. She is an avid self-publishing artist and is a contributing editor and co-founder of femme-centered quarterly publication 'Puzzazz Mag'. Carla LIESCHING is currently based in Ithaca, New York
Photo books by Carla LIESCHING
'Good Hope' (2019, 2021)
Awards, grants, jobs
Carla LIESCHING is a 2021 Light Work Grant recipient, as well as a winner of The British Journal of Photography Open Walls Arles competition, with upcoming exhibitions at the Lightwork Foundation and at Galerie Huit during Recontres Arles Photo Festival. Carla LIESCHING is currently based in Ithaca, New York, where she works as faculty for the International Center of Photography and coordinates the School of Criticism and Theory in the Comparative Literature department at Cornell University. She has also worked as an instructor and visiting lecturer at the Market Photography Workshop in Johannesburg. Carla is a 2019 graduate of Ithaca College’s Image Text MFA program.
Recent exhibitions
Late/Refusals with Oranbeg Press, Brooklyn (2021); Gato Negro and Friends Popup at MoMA , New York (2019); Follow my Hand at Deli Gallery, Brooklyn (2019); a booth with Brownie Project at PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai (2018); Emerging Photographers at CAFA Art Museum, Beijing (2018); wholewide.world with Volte Face, Johannesburg (2018).