Sean Metelerkamp
Sean Metelerkamp was born in 1984 in Knysna, South Africa. The darkroom at boarding school was where he began experimenting with photography while MTV and the internet transfixed him on weekends.
These interests led to photographing and directing music videos; the most notable for Die Antwoord in Zef Side, which was exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2010, as well as the Guggenheim Museums in Bilboa, Berlin and Venice as part of YouTube Play.
New York Times – “The Home Video rises to Museum Grade”
Zef Side won the D&AD Yellow Pencil for Best Music Video in 2011 and was exhibited at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York in 2013 as part of Spectacle, which explored the music video as an important and influential art form in contemporary culture.
A six-month residency followed at Residency Unlimited and during this time abroad Sean connected with Death Grips. Together they made Black Google, Eh and Interview.
Back home in 2014 Sean trekked throughout South Africa with two other photographers in their Kickstarter funded project called Twenty Journey. The documentary opened the Durban International Film Festival and won Best South African Documentary.
Variety – “Durban: Fest Opener ‘Journeymen’ Explores Authentic South Africa”
Noupoort is a self-published book produced by Sean in 2020. Read the Afterword and listen to the Interviews.