Bio

Ingrid Masondo is a PhD candidate and a New Archival Visions fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research-Department of Historical Studies, University of the Western Cape. She holds a Master’s in Public and Visual History from the same institution. Her practice in the art and heritage sectors spans more than two decades in a variety of institutions and capacities, particularly in music and photography. Amongst others, these include roles in artist and project management, production management, research, editing, curatorial, and archival work. She has worked at the Market Photo Workshop, Chimurenga Chronic, UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Archives, Making Music Productions, and Badilisha Poetry Radio. Until recently (2023), she was the curator of photography & new media at the Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG) in Cape Town, where she also served as Acting Director in 2017. 

As a researcher and photographer, Masondo’s work has focused on the body, its habits, practices, and performances, and how a variety of institutions mediate these. Dance and gardening are her foremost forms of recuperation.