Fragments: night city lights by Elsa Bleda

Elsa Bleda is a Photographer, Visual Artist and Filmmaker from Johannesburg, South Africa. Her series Fragments, of ‘Nightscapes: Johannesburg’ is an ongoing (2014 – 2019) large body of work that explores Johannesburg at night, predominantly locations such as Hillbrow, Newtown, CBD, Jeppestown.​​​​​​​ It’s the result of many years, cold nights, constant explorations, revisits, conversations with a complicated and mysterious city that has many layers.​​​​​​​ Elsa Bleda’s work is a kind of dystopian, digital emulsion, pronounced through distant angles, the buzz of neon-nowhere, and what remains after the long-exposure…