John Fleetwood (Johannesburg - South Africa, 1970) is an international photography curator, educator, and director of Photo:, a multi-operation platform for the development and promotion of socially engaged photography practices, photographers, and critical visual culture, mainly working with emerging photographers from the African continent.
From 2002-2015 Fleetwood was the Director of the Market Photo Workshop, a school, gallery, and project space in Johannesburg which was founded by David Goldblatt.
'Perhaps there is no better way to re-think our worlds, societies, and ourselves than through photography. It mediates and reflects the complex aspects of knowledge production and our independent and collective ways of sharing this world'