In the exhibition “Free from my Happiness”, the three photographers document their surroundings. In At night, they walk with me, Sibusiso Bheka takes us through his childhood memories that often seem surreal. While Tshepiso Mazibuko with her series Encounters photographs the intimate space of people, Lindokuhle Sobekwa documents the life of young people using nyaope, a highly addictive drug popularized among young black South Africans. Nyaope. Everything you give me my Boss, will do relates to the slang drug users say when they beg.

Belgian photographers Tjorven Bruyneel and Bieke Depoorter have guided the three young photographers into their creative journey. In zulu, Thokoza means “happiness”. Cameras in hand, Bheka, Mazibuko and Sobekwa decided in 2012 to “bear witness” to their everyday life as an escape and in the search of freedom: born after 1994, at the same time as democracy, they are part of the “Born Free” generation, as they are called in South Africa.