It's Not Going To Get Better
A series of staged tableaux, landscapes, and still-life images that illustrate the everyday social dread and marginalization experienced by Batswana.
We Didn't Choose To Be Born Here
This body of work is an exploration of Botswana and South Africa’s socio-political fabric through a personal lens. Blending staged portraiture, documentary images and re-enactments, Makepe weaves personal family stories with national history.
Fly Machine/Mogaka
Through photos taken of a diorama and photos from inside a large camera obscura, I follow the tragic passing of a Botswana Defence Force pilot who lost his life during a mysterious aircraft crash.