Gallery F Desk verified

Gallery F on Shortmarket Street deals specifically in photography, which narrows it usefully in a CBD full of general contemporary galleries. The programme runs in two directions at once: rare vintage prints by celebrated photographers, and contemporary work by people currently rewriting how the continent is pictured. Putting those two on the same walls is the point — a vintage press print and a new commission read differently side by side than either does alone. If you are looking specifically for photography in the Cape Town CBD rather than painting, this and Ultraviolet a few doors up are the two addresses. Gallery F opens for First Thursdays, the CBD's late-opening evening on the first Thursday of every month.