Tšeliso Monaheng is a filmmaker, director of photography, and multidisciplinary creative artist. Monaheng is part of a new generation of Southern African storytellers who transcend traditional genre boundaries between journalism, photography, music, film, and cultural criticism. Monaheng’s cinematography is characterized by an often raw and direct eye that focuses primarily on human faces, as well as cultural and urban landscapes. A recurring central theme in his work is the South African music scene, which he documents and portrays with his camera, as seen, for example, in the short film Indaba is all the people.

In addition to his work as a DoP, Tšeliso Monaheng regularly works as an author and cultural journalist. He writes for local and international media, including Rolling Stone South Africa, The Guardian, The Fader, as well as South African newspapers and online magazines.

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