The NAGN hosted a Wilma Erwee Group  Photographic  exhibition from the 3^rd to the 20t^h of July 2008.This exhibition showcased a mixture of dynamic black and white photographs by four photographers, Wilma Erwee, Johann Liebenberg, Vera Botha and Ria Lowerens.

One day in 2003, while tutoring first year students in Business mathematics at UNAM, Wilma Erwee, realised what unique faces were staring back at her. She saw the unique beauty in each person and was stuck by the fresh and innocent  expression on their faces. That was the beginning of the ’adventure’ to try and capture Namibian faces.

Johann Liebenberg started his photographic career in 1986 when he bought his first Olympus camera. Initially he concentrated on outdoor events, taking a wide variety of pictures and since then, he is concentrating on wedding pictures and individual portraits.

Vera Botha has been a professional photographer for the past 20 years. She studied photography in South Africa and is the co-owner and manager of Gerhard Botha Photographers in Windhoek. Her passion for photography comes from the joy of capturing the many different faces of Namibians.

Ria Lowrens, is a housewife and part- time farmer on the Kumakams farm in the south of Namibia. She is also a very keen amateur photographer. She captures a wide spectrum of concepts ranging from the events on their farm and nature to portraits of the people around her. She started photography three years ago and says that she is constantly surrounded by the beauty of nature and uses this opportunity to capture striking images.

Each photo captured the essence of the moment, from their daily lives to conceptualized images. The striking black and white pictures delivered a sense of uniformity and at the same time, a difference in personality. The saying goes, ”a photograph can be as striking and  as haunting as a great painting or a fine poem”. Photographs are somehow a record of reality and they can also depict the past and present in our daily lives.