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Seminars, symposiums and panel discussions:

March 1999

"The Black Photo Album" Slide presentation - FNAC Montparnasse, Paris, France

February 1999

"Trajectory of a Streetphotographer:1973-1998" Panel discussion and slide presentation on Taxonomy of African Art - College Arts Association Convention Centre, Los Angeles, Ca.

December 1998

"3rd Recontre de la Bamako" Symposium"- Bamako, Mali

October 1998

"Democracy´s Images" Symposium - BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden

October 1998

"Images and Dreams" Symposium - KulturHuset, Stockholm, Sweden

May 1995

"Transitions: Contemporary Art from South Africa", Panel Discussion and slide presentation - Green Park Station Brasserie, Bath, United Kingdom

October 1993

"The Soweto Project" Lecture and slide presentation, Herten Fotofestival -Herten, Germany

March 1992

"New Photography in a changing" Guest Lecture, Institute for Advanced Study and Research in the African Humanities - North Western University, Chicago, U.S.A.

May 1989        

"Photography My Way" Slide presentation, Department of Journalism - Rhodes University, Grahamstown, S.A.