Crossing Strangers
Andile Buka

6,000 JPY


Crossing Strangers marks Johannesburg-based photographer Andile Buka's first published body of work. Born and raised in Orange Farm, Crossing Strangers is a photobook that looks and thinks through the landscape of Johannesburg, and the people who both inhabit and fill its city streets. It is a visual reflection of a personal engagement with both the city's past and current landscape.


Included within is an essay by Rangoato Hlasane (Co-Founder of Keleketla Media Arts Project) titled: Monuments To The Eternal Spaces.






Title: Crossing Strangers
Size: 175 x 250 mm
Pages: 52, 25 black and white photographs
Binding: Hardcover, exposed smythe sewn binding
Publication date: August 2015
Text: Rangoato Hlasane, Andile Buka
Edition: 300
Printed and bound in Japan





Andile Buka (b.1990) is a Johannesburg-based photographer. Self-taught, his work has been exhibited in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and internationally, including at Lagos Photo Festival, the Internationale Schillertage Festival (Mannheim), Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (UK), Rush Arts Gallery (New York), and Totodo Books (Tokyo). In 2020 he was awarded a Pro Helvetia artist residency and in 2017 was selected for the New York Times Portfolio Review. His commercial clients include DJ Mag, Art Basel, Volkswagen, H&M, Dior, Avant Arte, Reebok, Nike, Maison Margiela, The Wire, Adidas, Levi’s, Converse, and ASOS. His photographs have appeared in Vogue Italia, Aperture, Ogojiii, The New York Times, The Guardian, VSCO, and Leica Fotografie International.


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In the Press
photographer andile buka on unlearning everything you’re taught as a man, i-D, 2016
Photographer Andile Buka on Portraiture, Fashion and Retro Japanese Cameras, Marie Claire, 2016
Interview with Andile Buka, Africa in the photobook, 2016
Crossing Strangers by Andile Buka, Self Publish Be Happy, 2016
Stalker｜Andile Buka, THE LAKE MAGAZINE, 2016
Andile Buka’s photobook explores the Johannesburg landscape, Design Indaba, 2016
Five selections from The Tokyo Art Book Fair with Ben Davis, HereNow, 2015
Crossing Strangers, ANDPEOPLE, 2015




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Crossing Strangers
Andile Buka

6,000 JPY




Crossing Strangers marks Johannesburg-based photographer Andile Buka's first published body of work. Born and raised in Orange Farm, Crossing Strangers is a photobook that looks and thinks through the landscape of Johannesburg, and the people who both inhabit and fill its city streets. It is a visual reflection of a personal engagement with both the city's past and current landscape.


Included within is an essay by Rangoato Hlasane (Co-Founder of Keleketla Media Arts Project) titled
Monuments To The Eternal Spaces.







Title: Crossing Strangers
Size: 175 x 250mm
Pages: 52, 25 black and white photographs
Binding: Hardcover, exposed smythe sewn binding
Publication date: August 2015
Edition: 300
Printed and bound in Japan




Andile Buka (b.1990) is a Johannesburg-based photographer. Self-taught, his work has been exhibited in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and internationally, including at Lagos Photo Festival, the Internationale Schillertage Festival (Mannheim), Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (UK), Rush Arts Gallery (New York), and Totodo Books (Tokyo). In 2020 he was awarded a Pro Helvetia artist residency and in 2017 was selected for the New York Times Portfolio Review. His commercial clients include DJ Mag, Art Basel, Volkswagen, H&M, Dior, Avant Arte, Reebok, Nike, Maison Margiela, The Wire, Adidas, Levi’s, Converse, and ASOS. His photographs have appeared in Vogue Italia, Aperture, Ogojiii, The New York Times, The Guardian, VSCO, and Leica Fotografie International.

@buka_andile







In the Press
photographer andile buka on unlearning everything you’re taught as a man, i-D, 2016
Photographer Andile Buka on Portraiture, Fashion and Retro Japanese Cameras, Marie Claire, 2016
Interview with Andile Buka, Africa in the photobook, 2016
Crossing Strangers by Andile Buka, Self Publish Be Happy, 2016
Stalker｜Andile Buka, THE LAKE MAGAZINE, 2016
Andile Buka’s photobook explores the Johannesburg landscape, Design Indaba, 2016
Five selections from The Tokyo Art Book Fair with Ben Davis, HereNow, 2015
Crossing Strangers, ANDPEOPLE, 2015




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