Soweto-born self-taught photographer and filmmaker Justice Mukheli (best known as one of the photographers from the iconic I See A Different You collective) stages his first solo exhibition Through Their Eyes at Daville Baillie Gallery’s fantastic new space in the inner-city art development Victoria Yards this March.

Coming from a background in the advertising industry, Mukheli and his brothers started the critically-acclaimed photography collective I See A Different You to focus on telling distinctly South African and African stories, a focus which Mukheli has also carried over into his solo work.

Through Their Eyes is a photography series that Mukheli started during his travels through South Africa and Nigeria. "I anchor this body of work in portraits of children that I have captured in South Africa, and Nigeria. Embedded in each image is 
this idea of Afrotopia – an imagined place of ideal perfection that is, simultaneously, distinctly African. These images, to me, are an index of spaces of possibility.”

The resulting body of work is imbedded with the freshness and frankness of youth, filled with images that are highly relevant and populated by familiar characters - mainly children - captured enjoying quintessentially youthful moments.