Thando
Mfundo
Ngidi.
Thando Mfundo Ngidi (b. 1991, South Africa) is a Photographer who works across sonic, visual, and haptic registers. Ngidi’s artistic-research-led practice posits the philo-praxis of Ukutheza, Ukunqgakula, and Ukuzilanda as epistemic, cosmological, and ontological Nguni worldviews for thinking through post-coloniality and the continual reassembly of black subjectivity through situated and embodied forms of knowledge co-constitution.
By way of attending sensorially through continual processes of gathering work, call and response, and self-fetching/narrating, Ngidi creates immersive fields that mobilise photography, projection, sonic collage, and hapticity as interconnected sites of memory and affect, particularly through the lens of African Indigenous Knowledge, Black Studies, Black feminist, and Decolonial frameworks that seek to complicate understandings of colonial temporality.
Ngidi is currently studying towards a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts at Wits School Of the Arts (2026). He is a Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents Laureate (2022). Ngidi has also participated in exhibitions, mentorship programmes, and facilitation-based projects locally and internationally, including The Market Photo Workshop, Incubator edition 6 (2022), Tierney Fellow shortlist 2019 & 2025, Danielle Tamagni grant shortlist (2024) and Africa Foto Fair mentee (2024). Ngidi’s work has been published in online platforms such as Der Greif (2025), Seezenphoto(2025), Tender Photo(2024), Revue6mois (2022 and Photoworks.uk.org(2021).
*Disclaimer:
All of my images are self-portraits-they are a evolving journal of who I was, who I am and who I am becoming.
I am drawn to the quiet spaces between these transitions, where identity shifts, memory distorts, and language often falls short.
Each constellation is an ongoing internal dialogue-not about resolution, but about holding space for what is dynamic, quietly loud, and still becoming.