Dale Washkansky is an emerging contemporary South African artist. Working primarily in the medium of photography, he graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2006 and his graduate exhibition, Surface Tension, was received well with one review from ARTTHROB stating that his "harshly discordant photographs were especially convincing. His exercise in dark-room collage highlighted an incongruent relationship between the architecture of hallowed spaces and the sexual body. The result was a brilliant confrontation that conveyed the complexity of our interaction with the sacred." The work was singled out as an outstanding photographic contribution.

Previous exhibitions include a series of photographs that were part of the Cape Town Month of Photography.

Washkansky is descended from Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

n Jews

Jews

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, and his grandfather, Louis Washkansky

Louis Washkansky

Louis Washkansky was the recipient of the world's first human heart transplant.-Biography:Washkansky was a Lithuanian Jew who migrated with his friends to South Africa in 1922, aged nine, and became a grocer in Cape Town. Washkansky saw active service in World War II in East and North Africa and...

, the recipient of the world's first human heart transplant, migrated with his family to South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

in 1922.