Nontsikelelo Veleko

Born in 1977 in the North West Bodibe South Africa Nontsikelelo Veleko was raised in Cape Town

Nontsikelelo Veleko studied photography from 2000-2003 at the Market Photoworkshop and was a trainer in outreach projects in photography. Nontsikelelo worked under John Fleetwood from 2001-2007 with projects such as “Take a girl to work” sponsored by a cellular company CELL C as well as training street photographer’s digital photography. She has worked on several photography exhibition showing her work all over the world (RECONTRES DE BAMAKO, MALI, Studio HARLEM, ICP NEWYORK, Basel SWITZERLAND, JAPAN, ITALY,Sweden, France, Arles etc

The first show she curated was RESIST(E) Printemps photographic South Africa in Nimes, France in 2017 where she liased with South African photographers form different provinces of South Africa so as to showcase contemporary South African photography. The resist(e) show consisted of a conference and different venues to see different works of photographers

Nontsikelelo currently lives and works from Nimes,France with gallerie NEGPOS assisting and mounting their exhibitions