Carla Liesching is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, writing, collage, sculpture, bookmaking and design. Grounded in experiences growing up in apartheid South Africa, she considers the intersections of representation, knowledge and power, with a focus on colonial histories and enduring constructions of race and geography. Carla’s project, Good Hope, was published by MACK in November 2021, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Aperture Paris Photo First Book Award, and the Arles 2022 Prix du Livre in the Photo-Text Category. An excerpt from Good Hope is also featured in On Whiteness, by SPBH Editions. Carla was a 2021 winner of Open Walls Arles presented by The British Journal of Photography and exhibited during the 2021 and 2022 Rencontres d’Arles Festival. She is a 2021 Light Work Grant recipient and is the 2022 recipient of the Silver Eye Fellowship. Carla was recently named a 2022 Foam Talent, with upcoming exhibitions at Foam Museum in Amsterdam, the Deutsche Börse Foundation in Frankfurt, along with a solo show of Good Hope at PhMuseum in Bologna, Italy. Carla lives between South Africa and Ithaca, NY, where she works as a Visiting Critic in Photography at Cornell University, as a Lecturer in Theory & Practice at Ithaca College, and as faculty at the International Center of Photography. As part of her socially engaged practice, Carla is also a youth educator focused on image-making, visual literacy and self-publishing as vehicles for expression and empo
