Lekgetho Makola is currently the CEO of Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is the former Head of Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg. Makola has been part of a number of diverse visual storytelling platforms and curatorial committees that included the Rencontres de Bamako in Mali, New York Times portfolio reviews and chairing the World Press Photo Awards General Jury 2020. Lekgetho Makola’s artistic philosophy is embedded in social justice and advocacy as an International Ford Foundation Fellow on Social Justice. He sits on the advisory committees to the boards of CathLight and Social Documentary Network. Lekgetho, a graduate of Howard University MFA Film Studies, has accumulated extensive strategic experience in arts administration and artistic programming from institutions he worked for in over two decades. He is a founding member of Centres of Learning for Photography in Africa, a continental network for photographic hubs.