Gabrielle Kannemeyer is a photographer and visual storyteller based in District Six, Cape Town. Her work is grounded 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 focuses on emotionally resonant, often overlooked stories around equestrian traditions in South Africa. These stories particularly relate to intergenerational memory, identity, erasure and belonging.
She is currently pursuing a multi-year documentary project about South African horse culture, which is a subject deeply personal and interwoven into her own story. This work explores and archives the stories of established horse communities across local show grounds, 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, she examines themes of representation, erasure, land, tradition, and pride in these often underrepresented communities.