SOLO SHOW
2021
Drummies, Rotterdam Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Nederlands
2020
35th Hyeres festival of Fashion and Photography, Villa Noailles, Hyeres, France
GROUP SHOWS
2023
Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Ireland
2022 – 2023
The Words Create Images, 5th edition of the Casablanca Biennale, Casablanca,
Morroco.
Ozangè Biennale of African Photography, Malaga, Spain.
Dandy Style, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
2022
Homebody #2, FRAC Collection Exhibition, Villa of the Région, Reunion Island
Prix Elysee 5th edition nominee 2022-2024, Lausanne, Switzerland
L’Enfance dans la Collection agnès b, La Fab., Paris, France.
Photo Book! Photo-Book! Photobook!, curated by Sean O’Toole, A4 Arts Foundation,
Cape Town, South Africa
Opening Doors, Danziger Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
2021
Paris Photo, Grand Palais éphémère, Paris France
Portraits in Dialogue: South African Contemporary Photography, OCT Boxes Art Museum, Foshan City, China
Group show, RESTUDIO, Johannesburg, South Africa
2020
Africa – in the eye of the photographers, The Völklingen Ironworks World Heritage Site, Völklingen, Saarland, Germany
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, AFRONOVA, La Mamounia, Marrakesh, Morroco
2019
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, AFRONOVA, Somerset House, London, UK
Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography, Hyères, France
Khanyi’s Dance, ‘Projected’ series at the International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2018 – 2019
Drummies, four images selected as a winning series for The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portraiture Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2018
Drummies, Lensculture Emerging Photographer winner: Juror’s pick and Emerging Talent Exhibition, Klompching Gallery, New York, USA
Drummies, AddisFotoFest, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Drummies, Red Hook Labs, Unseen Amsterdam, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Women’s Perspectives Now, Organ Vida Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia
How to Fall with Grace, K-Gold Temporary Gallery, Lesvos, Greece
Family of No Man, Arles Cosmos, Arles, France
New African Photography III, Red Hook Labs Gallery, New York, USA
Uncertain Times, curated by Deborah Willis at the Philadelphia University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA
2017
Maximum Effect, selected for THE ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION 160, United Kingdom
Domestic Bliss, Pylot Magazine’s group show, The Print Space, London, UK
Anomalies, Semaphore Gallery of African Contemporary Art, Switzerland
AWARDS
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018
Lensculture Emerging Photographer winner: Juror’s pick and Emerging Talent Exhibition
PHMuseums Women’s Photographers ‘New Generation Prize’ Winner
Joan Wakelin Award 2017
Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Award
Joop Swart World Press Masterclass
Hunger Magazine Documentary Photography
Alice Mann photobook bangs the drum for South African girls, Wallpaper, July 2022
The Power & Pride Of South Africa’s Drum Majorettes, Huck Magazine, January 2022
Photographer Alice Mann shows the energy and ambition of South Africa’s all-female drum majorettes, CNN, July 2021
Alice Mann, juste une dernière danse, Beaux Arts Magazine, July 2022
Wanted 21: Young and Vital Artists, The Art Issue, Wanted Magazine, September 2021
No longer underappreciated: South African women photographers seize the limelight, Cur8 art, July 2021
Inside Dakota Johnson’s Serene Hollywood Home, Architectural Digest, March 2020
1-54 Marrakech a le vent en poupe, Le Figaro, February 2020
Highlights of 154 Marrakech, Selections, February 2020
1-54 Contemporary Africain Art fair : le tour d’Afrique sans bouger de Marrakech, La Vie éco, February 2020
Show piece: photographer Alice Mann hooks up with performance art group Stasis, Wallpaper*, December 2019
These four women are changing the face of modern african art, i-D, October 2019
Right on beat: Celebrating the best contemporary African art, World Photography Organisation, October 2019
Bon début à 1-54 pour les jeunes artistes, le quotidien de l’Art, October 2019
Nine Photographers Changing the Way We See Africa and Its Diaspora, Another mag, October 2019
A glimpse into the 2019 edition of 1-54 London, New African, October 2019
La Contemporary African Art Fair met à l’honneur les 54 pays du continent à travers l’art, Cheese Konbini, October 2019
Alice Mann on making photographs that the people she shoots want to see, It’s Nice That, August 2019
Meet the new photographic stars from this year’s hyères festival, i-D, May 2019
Festival de Hyères, focus sur les trois lauréats 2019, Madame Figaro, May 2019
Majorettes et fières de l’être, Beaux Arts, May 2019
Les “Drummies” déterminées d’Alice Mann, Virtute, May 2019
The Best Photographs We Saw at Hyères 2019, AnOther, May 2019
Hyéres 2019 Winner Announced, Musee Magazine, May 2019
L’esprit Noailles aux couleurs arc-en-ciel, Arts Hebdo Media, May 2019
Hyères highlights: the international photo and fashion festival in focus, Wallpaper*, April 2019
Festival de Hyères 2019 : nos 3 photographes coups de cœur, Vogue France, April 2019
Hyères 2019: Photography award winners announced, British Journal of Photography, April 2019
Alice Mann remporte le Grand Prix du Jury Photographie, Elle France, April 2019
Female in Focus: “Dominance is often a characteristic associated with men”, British Journal of Photography, March 2019
Coming of Age at a South African Prom, A peek into the life of a Cape Town teenager, The Cut, March 2019
Alice Mann, Drummies, Fold Magazine
Alice Mann, Fire Cracker
Photos challenging stereotypes of life on the African continent, We Present We Transfer, November 2018
Exposure, Alice Mann, Creative Review, September 2018
Alice Mann’s magical photos of south africa’s young majorettes, i-D, September 2018
5 Photographers to Follow this December, Artsy, December 2018
Alice Mann wins 2018 Taylor Wessing prize with series Drummies, The Guardian, October 2018
Winner of the 2018 Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize announced – in pictures, The Guardian, October 2018
Alice Mann’s All-Female Drum Majorette series wins the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018, Taylor Wessing United Kingdom, October 2018
Taylor Wessing Prize: Alice Mann wins with portraits of drum majorettes, BBC, October 2018
First Prize, Drummies, National Portrait Galleries, October 2018
Alice Mann’s all-female drum majorette series wins the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018, Creative Boom, October 2018
Alice Mann awarded the 2018 Taylor Wessing prize in historic win, Its Nice That, October 2018
Majorette-subcultuur floreert in de troosteloze townships van Kaapstad, De Volkskrant, October 2018
Alice Mann’s magical photos of south africa’s young majorettes, i-d, Vice, September 2018
Drummies, L’officiel Netherlands, September 2018
Matric Ball Portraits, commission from Wepresent, Wetransfer
Alice Mann photographs African men from London’s La Sape, It’s Nice That, July 2017
Alice Mann
Born in Cape Town in 1991. Lives and works between Cape Town and London.
Alice Mann is a South African photographic artist based in London who’s intimate portraiture essays explore notions of picture making as an act of collaboration. She aims to create images that empower her subjects and creates projects over extended periods, allowing for engaged and nuanced representations.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at Red Hook Labs (NYC), Unseen Photo Fair (Amsterdam), The National Portrait Gallery and Somerset House (London), The International Centre of Photography (NYC) and Manchester Art Gallery, as prestigious art fairs including 1:54 African Art Fair, and Paris Photo Fair. Mann’s personal and commissioned work has been published internationally including The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Artsy, The British Journal of Photography, and National Geographic.
Her award winning series ‘Drummies’ exploring female drum majorette teams in South Africa, has been selected as a winner of the Lensculture emerging photographer prize (2018) and the PHMuseum Women’s ‘New Generation’ prize for an emerging photographer (2018). Four images from the series were awarded first place at the prestigious Taylor Wessing portraiture prize (2018). The work was also awarded the Grand Prix at the 34th edition of the Hyeres International Festival of Fashion and Photography (2019). Her first solo exhibition of the work was at the Kunsthal Rotterdam in late 2021, when she also released her first monograph, ‘Drummies’, with acclaimed photobook publisher GOST Books. Her most recent body of work ‘The Night is Young’ was selected as finalist for the 2022-2024 edition of the Prix Elysee.
Her work is part of collections including JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, Floriane de Saint Pierre, Agnès b, and the Getty Museum.
Her work is currently on show as part of Africa Supernova, The Collection of Carla and Pieter Schulting, at Kunsthal Kade in the Nederlands.