Ashley Walters (artist)

Ashley Walters is a South African-born and based artist who works with photography and film.
Life and work.
Walters was born in 1983 in Uitsig, a suburb of Cape Town, six kilometers southeast of Cape Town International Airport.
During 1991 a family friend who happened to photograph local events introduced Walters to photography. In 1996 Walters received his first 35 mm compact film camera. Once Walters obtained a computer in high school, experimentation with digital image manipulation was possible.
Walters matriculated in 2000 from the technical St. Andrews High School before moving on to business in college. He gained a BA in Fine Art (2011) from the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art. Walters is currently undertaking the second year of an MA in Fine Art at Michaelis.
His work "Revolves around the mechanics of social ordering and explores relationships between social constructs and spatiality".
His projects have been "Xray" (2009), "Fear" (2009), "Malawi" (2010), "Uitsig" (2010) and "Dark City" (2011).
2013: Research Fellow: Centre for Curating the Archive, University of Cape Town.