Photo essay: Youth, religion & South Africa Tembisa-born photographer Rhulani Bila explores how SA's youth navigates their need for belonging and desire for acceptance in a religious society that creates in them a dichotomy and crisis of faith
“I’ve always done more personal projects alongside the commercial ones, but I guess I’m just getting braver about showing them,” says Bila.
“I’d borrow a friend’s camera every other weekend and shoot street fashion. I wanted to show the world that we have fashion and style in Africa – we don’t all dress in traditional prints and skins.”“I rented a camera to do a shoot for them and used the pay to buy my own camera.”There’s more to Bila’s Revelations series than meets the eye.
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