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Ocean Connections

Highlighting people’s cultural connections to the ocean and coast through photography and storytelling

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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.

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©2022 BY THE ALGOA BAY PROJECT.

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