Editorial features, exhibition reviews, and international publications featuring the work of Clint Strydom.
"For most South Africans, soccer looks like the images in Clint Strydom's high-contrast black and white photographs. Barefoot pre-teen boys sporting broad smiles kicking a ragged ball through sand and dirt in KwaZulu Natal." Tim Howard and the U.S. team bought signed prints; works were presented to FIFA president Sepp Blatter. By Jeffrey Marcus.
Sixteen years after the series was first exhibited, Andrea Nagel's Parting Shot column revisits Strydom's acclaimed Real Heroes series — children playing soccer with pure devotion across South Africa's beaches and township grounds — in the pages of Sunday Times Lifestyle ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The series, originally created in 2009 to mark the 2010 World Cup, endures as one of the defining bodies of work in South African sports photography.
Clint Strydom's layered photographs shown with Art of Contemporary Africa at Expo Chicago 2025 — mashing up building facades with passersby and illuminated windows to surreal effect. By Eileen Kinsella.
National Geographic highlighted artists participating in the FIFA World Cup Fine Arts Project, including Strydom's The Real Heroes series, recognising the project's role in presenting alternative cultural narratives surrounding the tournament.
Forbes highlighted the launch of AOCA (Art of Contemporary Africa) at Minnesota Street Project, describing it as San Francisco's first Pan-African contemporary art gallery. The article identified Clint Strydom as co-founder alongside Craig Mark and discussed AOCA's mission to present leading and emerging artists from Africa and the African diaspora. By Chadd Scott.
"El EspÃritu de la Gloria" — given to each player inducted into the National and International Soccer Hall of Fame as a symbol of admiration and respect. This piece was created by South African Clint Strydom.
At Constitution Hill, Strydom uses large-format Hasselblad photography to evoke the silent corridors of Number Four prison — once home to Mandela and Gandhi — transforming empty spaces into powerful metaphors of endurance and memory. By Tymon Smith.
This artwork by South Coast artist Clint Strydom captures the mood of the Battle of Isandlwana between British and Zulu forces in 1879. Commissioned by KwaZulu-Natal Tourism and Strydom was asked to portray historic moments in Zulu history.
In collaboration with Constitution Hill and co-curator Gaisang Sathekge, Strydom releases a new body of photographs on the Number 4 Prison Section. The exhibition narrates the story of a prison that held Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Robert Sobukwe and Oliver Tambo.
South Africa's Department of International Relations and Cooperation features the Constitution Hill exhibition in their quarterly magazine, noting Strydom's spirit-evoking body of photographs, accentuating the history of the prison. Featured on the cover with 'Two Red Shoes'.
Stephan Welz & Co opens its Studio space in Nelson Mandela Square with Strydom's Aston Martin-inspired photography. "One is immediately struck by the sophistication and diverse playfulness in lines which appear as abstract compositions." — Fred Scott, paintings consultant.
An online photographic exhibition by Clint Strydom highlighting the true passion for football.
Broadcasting live from Mexico ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026, SABC News' Morning Live reveals that the official 12-kilogram silver-covered trophies awarded to Hall of Fame inductees are crafted by renowned South African sculptor Clint Strydom — an exclusive discovery of a prominent South African artistic connection embedded within the global football institution.
A feature on South African photographer Clint Strydom's powerful photographic exhibition, Hidden Shadows and Silent Voices of Prison Number Four, hosted at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg.
An intimate profile exploring Strydom's journey and artistic practice. "Much of Strydom's work focuses on the daily lives of rural people. Taking photographs involving soccer was a natural progression."
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