Ocean Connections
Highlighting people’s cultural connections to the ocean and coast through photography and storytelling
Photograph of Sangoma Siyasanga Ntabeni. The coastline of Algoa Bay is a place where Nguni traditional healers, Sangomas, come to connect and communicate with the ancestors.
Indigenous and local knowledge is important for how we use and care for our oceans and coasts. Too often, these knowledge systems and knowledge holders are excluded from how the ocean is used and managed, and in the context of Algoa Bay the reasoning has sometimes been that it is challenging to integrate this knowledge into ocean management. It is however not impossible, and this project explores ways of using photography and storytelling to convey peoples’ personal relationship with the ocean. This exhibition is the result of this work.
Recent Publications
Strand, M., Rivers, N., Baasch, R and Snow, B. 2022. Developing arts-based participatory research for more inclusive knowledge co-production in Algoa Bay, Current Research in Environmental Sustainability
Strand, M., Rivers, N. and Snow, B. 2022. Reimagining ocean stewardship: Arts-based methods to 'hear' and 'see' Indigenous and local knowledge in ocean management, Frontiers in Marine Science
Strand, M. and Samuel, M. M. 2022. How art can support the advancement of human rights and the ocean, One Ocean Hub
Rivers, N., Truter, H.,Strand, M. et al. 2022. Shared visions for marine spatial planning: Insights from Israel, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, Ocean & Coastal Management
