Gabrielle Kannemeyer is a photographer and visual storyteller based in District Six, Cape Town. Her work is rooted in personal history, community connections, and a deep engagement with heritage and place. With a background in fine art and a practice informed by years of visual exploration, Gabrielle’s photography foregrounds emotionally resonant, often overlooked stories, particularly around South Africa’s equestrian traditions. These stories are deeply personal and interwoven into her own life, exploring themes of intergenerational memory, identity, erasure, and belonging.

She is currently pursuing a multi-year documentary project on South African horse culture, which archives the experiences of established horse communities across local showgrounds, suburbs, city spaces, valley towns, and remote corners of the country. Gabrielle highlights the close, complex bonds between individuals, families, their horses, and their culture and heritage. Through portrait photography, archival research, and active participation, her work examines representation, land, tradition, and pride within communities often overlooked in mainstream narratives.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025
'As Necessary as Bread', EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
'Perde Mense', Capsule of 'As Necessary as Bread', Central Library, Cape Town Photography Festival, Cape Town South Africa

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026
'A Very Loop Street Winter', EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
Santu Mofokeng Foundation Photography Prize, Latitudes Centre For the Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa

2025
'UNO', Ultraviolet, Cape Town, South Africa
'Many Selves', ORMS in partnership with Art School Africa, Cape Town School of Photography, Cape Town, South Africa
'Journey Mercies', EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

PUBLICATIONS

Dionisio, G. (2025). ‘As Necessary as Bread’ at Ebony/Curated. [online] Visi. Available at: https://visi.co.za/gabrielle-kannemeyer-debut-exhibition-as-necessary-as-bread-at-ebony-curated/ [Accessed 19 Sep. 2025].

Collyer, R. (2025). power of a portrait. House and Leisure, 18, 4 September, pp. 41-44