Jo Ractliffe

Born in Cape Town in 1961, Jo Ractliffe is a South African photographer. Trained at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, she teaches and pursues a hybrid practice—black-and-white film photography, video, and installations—that explores memory, violence, and post-conflict landscapes.
Her work, deeply rooted in the territories of southern Africa, developed in the context of the end of apartheid and the upheavals that followed. Jo Ractliffe is interested in landscapes as places of memory, both in South Africa and in the border territories of Namibia and Angola, marked by forty years of war.
His work has been exhibited in major international institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Walther Collection, the Tate Modern, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as numerous biennials and group exhibitions.