Giya Makondo-Wills

Giya Makondo-Wills' work is grounded in a commitment to questioning and dismantling dominant narratives. As a British–South African artist, she explores themes of identity, community, and power through a decolonial lens. Working across photography, text, sound, archives, and moving image, her practice embraces the complexity of storytelling beyond a single frame.

Central to her approach is the preservation and amplification of stories from the margins. She seeks to de-centre Eurocentric worldviews and create space for multiple truths and histories to coexist. While her foundations lie in documentary photography, her practice has evolved alongside shifting cultural understandings of representation, documentation, and witnessing.

Whether in the classroom, the studio, or through collaborative public dialogue, Makondo-Wills sees image-making as an act of care, resistance, and imagination.