South African artist, Lusanda Ndita’s work interrogates the archetypal family structure and its relations to society, one’s manhood, and historical ties. His images examine the interplay of presence juxtaposed by absence as a way to represent the position of male role models.

Through the use of domestic archive, materials passed onto him by his mother, such as family photo albums and identification documents, Ndita attempts to bridge the gaps in his own identity and associations with manhood via deconstructing images of missing father figures and creating a silhouette to reflect their identity, or lack thereof.

These are often presented in various layers, most notably miner’s ledgers, dompass identity documents, and work permits.