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OMBA GALLERY: 'every one hundredth of a second' by JOHN LIEBENBERG & TONY FIGUEIRA

Veteran photojournalist, John Liebenberg and international photographic artist, Tony Figueira, present the vivid and poignant ‘every one hundredth of a second’, a collaborative photographic exhibition of images taken during the late eighties and early nineties, at Omba Gallery from Friday, 21 February - 19 March 2014.

Liebenberg and Figueira, through a selection of 20 images each, present personal visual collectives of events in Namibia, South Africa and Angola, during the most turbulent times of human interaction in the region. The images cover a wide variety of topics, with emphasis on the struggle for liberation in Namibia which led to Independence on 21 March 1990.
(Photograph: John Liebenberg)

 John Arthur Liebenberg was introduced to Namibia in 1976 when, together with his fellow conscripts, he was sent to Ondangwa air force base near the border with Angola. He later returned to Namibia and in 1985 was appointed photographer for ‘the namibian’ newspaper, then a brand new newspaper challenging the apartheid status quo and promoting the independence of Namibia. After Namibia’s independence, his family moved to Johannesburg, from where he covered the Angolan civil war as a freelance journalist for Reuters. He later joined Media 24 and worked for Drum magazine. He is an established news photographer (photojournalist) whose work has been exhibited in Africa and Europe. His Namibian photographic collection documenting SWAPO’s war of liberation and the South African occupation of Namibia is widely used by historians, researchers and film makers. 
(Photograph: John Liebenberg, SADF withdrawal from southern Angola)

 After graduating from Rhodes University in South Africa, Angolan-born Tony Figueira's passion for documentary photography and photojournalism saw him cover a wide variety of themes involving people and processes. The liberation struggle and Namibia's road to independence became a key subject of his photography, and during the implementation of United Nations Resolution 435, Tony was commissioned by the United Nations to photographically document the process.

Freelance journalism and photography led to Figueira stringing for several local and international media organisations including Voice of America (VOA), Radio TSF (Lisbon), Gemini Agency (London), The Rand Daily Mail and the Weekly Mail (Johannesburg). Throughout the years, Tony has exhibited widely in Namibia and internationally. In 2004, he founded Studio 77, a commercial photography, printing and design studio in Windhoek.
The exhibition, ‘every one hundredth of a second’, sponsored by the National Arts Council of Namibia, will be showcased at Omba Gallery from the 21st of February to the 19th of March, 2014. All photographs are for sale. 

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