Alice Mann

Alice Mann (b. 1991) is a South African photographic artist whose work explores youth, identity, belonging, and community through collaborative portraiture. Working over extended periods of time, she creates intimate photographic essays that seek to empower participants while offering nuanced representations of their everyday lives and experiences.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including Foam Amsterdam, the International Centre of Photography (ICP), Somerset House, Kunsthal Rotterdam, and Belfast Photo Festival, and published in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, National Geographic, and the British Journal of Photography.

In 2018, her series Drummies, exploring female drum majorette teams in South Africa, won first prize at the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, the first time a photographic series received the award. She was also awarded the Grand Prix Photography at the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography in 2019.

Mann published her first monograph, Drummies, with GOST Books in 2021. Her second book, The Night is Young, documenting South African matriculant balls, was published by IDEA Books in 2024.