Carla Liesching
BIOGRAPHY
Carla Liesching is a photographer and visual artist from Johannesburg, South Africa. She obtained a degree in Fine Art from Rhodes University, specialising in photography and video, with undergraduate credits in theatre. Her involvement in performance arts has greatly influenced her approach to photography and her work is often narrative-based. Since graduating she has been involved in various exhibitions, performances and installations and her photographic work has been shown both locally and internationally. Lieshcing is also involved in arts education, having run workshops for the South African National Children’s Arts Festical, assistant lecturing at Rhodes University and, most recently, teaching analogue photography at the Market Photography Worskshop in Newtown, Johannesburg. She is currently living and working in Taipei.
EXHIBITIONS
Lens: fractions of contemporary photography and video in South Africa, May 2011
The Swimmers,April 2011
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