Gallery F

Gallery F Currently building a contemporary archive. https://linktr.ee/galleryf

Gallery F is a Cape Town based photography gallery that preserves & promotes South Africa’s photographic legacy, specialising in rare & vintage photography prints.

07/09/2026

Some highlights from yesterday… I forgot to get any other clips from the weekend unfortunately!

Our hearts are so full. We’ve had such incredible response and engagement with the work. Thank you to each and everyone ...
06/09/2026

Our hearts are so full. We’ve had such incredible response and engagement with the work.

Thank you to each and everyone who has taken the time to chat with us and spend time with the works. And a big thank you to everyone who has been apart of this journey!

We love Johannesburg 🤍
FNB Art Joburg

Day one was a great success.We had a blast engaging with the work and, even more importantly, with so many collectors, p...
04/09/2026

Day one was a great success.
We had a blast engaging with the work and, even more importantly, with so many collectors, photographers, friends and new faces throughout the day.

It was great to see the conversations that opened up around the photographs on our walls, from the archival works through to the contemporary voices we’re presenting at the fair.

We’re back at FNB Art Joburg today till Sunday.
📍 Sandton Convention Centre
📅 4–6 September 2026
📍 Stand GIF

FNB Art Joburg

Jürgen Schadeberg, Picnic at Eton College, England, 1981.In 1964, Schadeberg left South Africa for London.Over the next ...
31/08/2026

Jürgen Schadeberg, Picnic at Eton College, England, 1981.

In 1964, Schadeberg left South Africa for London.

Over the next two decades he worked as a freelance photojournalist across Europe and America, contributing to a number of major magazines while also teaching in New York, London and Hamburg.

Before returning to South Africa in 1985, he had lived in London, Spain, New York and France. The photographs from these years are a very different part of his archive, moving between social documentary work and more modernist, abstract images.

It’s an interesting photograph to look at alongside his wider work because it shows how broad his eye was. Different country, different social setting, but the same attention to people and the small details around them.

1981 was also the year Schadeberg had a solo exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery in London and published the book Jürgen Schadeberg.

Original handprint & Selected works by Jürgen Schadeberg are available through Gallery F.

Enquiries via DM or galleryf.co.za

Jessica Hilltout | Abdoul, Sin-Yirri district, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2009This is one of the quieter portraits from ...
21/08/2026

Jessica Hilltout | Abdoul, Sin-Yirri district, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2009

This is one of the quieter portraits from AMEN. Away from the football matches and handmade balls. Just pure strength!

Selected works from AMEN are available through Gallery F.

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Photographed in Hillbrow in 2003, a man pauses in prayer with a Bible in his hand while Ponte City rises behind him.By t...
20/08/2026

Photographed in Hillbrow in 2003, a man pauses in prayer with a Bible in his hand while Ponte City rises behind him.

By the early 2000s, Hillbrow had undergone enormous social change and had become one of Johannesburg’s most complex inner-city neighbourhoods. Crocquet’s photograph avoids the spectacle usually associated with the area and instead focuses on a private moment of faith within the city.

This particular print is edition 6/10, signed and inscribed in pencil on the reverse and stamped with the Pierre Crocquet Estate embossed stamp on the recto.

Paper size: 42 × 29.7 cm
Image size: 38 × 25 cm
Edition: 6/10

Available through Gallery F.
Enquiries via DM or galleryf.co.za

“Our railroad is coming to the end of the line...”Ken Gerhardt’s Off the Rails is an ongoing photographic study of the r...
20/08/2026

“Our railroad is coming to the end of the line...”
Ken Gerhardt’s Off the Rails is an ongoing photographic study of the railway line that traces Cape Town’s False Bay coastline.

Gerhardt began photographing the line in 2015, drawn to a route he knows intimately and to the possibility that this familiar part of the Southern Peninsula may one day disappear. Rather than simply documenting the railway, he looks closely at the structures, landscapes and small details that have become part of its character.

In this photograph, a boat sits in front of a weathered boathouse beside the railway, one of the many quiet scenes Gerhardt has encountered while following the line along the coast.

The series is produced as traditional black-and-white silver gelatin handprints. Each print is individually made by the photographer, signed, numbered and embossed, in limited editions of five.

Ken Gerhardt, Off the Rails

Sometimes the best way to experience photography is simply to stand in front of it and look.Our walls bring together pho...
19/08/2026

Sometimes the best way to experience photography is simply to stand in front of it and look.

Our walls bring together photographs made across decades of South African photographic history, from portraiture, music and fashion to performance, cultural change and some of the defining personalities and moments of their time.

Some have become iconic images of South African photography. Others are lesser-known works that offer a chance to discover photographers, periods and bodies of work you may not have encountered before.

Together, they give a sense of how rich and varied South Africa’s photographic history is, and how much there still is to discover.

Come visit us, take your time and spend some time with the photographs.

📍 78 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town
🔗 galleryf.co.za

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Did you know this famous photograph was taken by a South African photographer?Barry Lategan was born in South Africa and...
18/08/2026

Did you know this famous photograph was taken by a South African photographer?

Barry Lategan was born in South Africa and went on to become one of the defining fashion and portrait photographers working in Britain during the 1960s.

In 1966, he photographed a young Twiggy, then still Lesley Hornby. The photographs became closely associated with the look of the decade and with the beginning of her extraordinary career.

It is a fascinating South African connection within one of the most recognisable chapters of 1960s fashion photography.

Original, signed handprint available,
Signed in pen on recto,
Archive print details on verso.
Paper size: 40cm x 30cm

Enquire with Gallery F about works by Barry Lategan.

A photograph that feels like a scene from a story already in motion, and an absolute favourite of mine!Frank Herholdt’s ...
13/08/2026

A photograph that feels like a scene from a story already in motion, and an absolute favourite of mine!

Frank Herholdt’s ‘The Brooks Fox Hunt, 2015’ carries the atmosphere of a cinematic still. The moment is carefully composed, leaving the rest to our imagination.

Chatting to Frank about it, he recalls that it was particularly difficult to create this image having so many components, especially having the fox and the hounds in close proximity…

Frank Herholdt
The Brooks Fox Hunt, 2015

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Visit Gallery F at 78 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town, or DM us to enquire about the work.

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78 Shortmarket Street
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Monday 11:00 - 16:00
Tuesday 10:00 - 16:00
Wednesday 10:00 - 16:00
Thursday 10:00 - 16:00
Friday 11:00 - 16:00
Saturday 09:00 - 17:00
Sunday 09:00 - 17:00

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