Selected projects

Out of Place 2016—2020

Nationalists and populists are laying narrow bounds for social inclusion. By portraying immigrants and minorities as a threat, they are gaining political support and intolerance is becoming the order of the day.

Out of Place contains 32 photographs that lament this threat to pluralism and the impact of this on the experience of place. Reeling with a sense of betrayal and disappointment, the photographer made these on the move - literally running in anger.

Common Ground 2015—2017

Common Ground is a collaboration between photographer A.J. Pretorius and writer Simon Guy.

The book raises and explores the tensions, contradictions and questions that result from different claims to shared physical and social space. Interleaving photographs and text, it was designed to avoid fixed meanings and to encourage reflection and dialogue.

Unhome 2012—2015

Unhome is a photographic study of immigration and belonging. In it, photographer A.J. Pretorius captures the state of suspension between the familiar and foreign that characterises relocation. As an immigrant himself, the photographer challenges more common non-émigré depictions of immigration.