• Melanie Cleary’s debut solo exhibition “The Hero Within” at the Photographer’s Gallery presents her work over the past three years on the theme of natural bodybuilding competitions in and around the Cape Peninsula. Cleary is a self-taught photographer who has taken photographs for the past eight years.

Untitled (Ashley), colour photograph, 42 x 31.5 & 84 x 63 cm, 2009

Her exhibition will be opened by Kate Wilson on 7 September at 6pm in the Photographer’s Gallery, 63 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town. www.erdmanncontemporary.co.za.

• The South African Centre for Photography has pleasure in announcing the current exhibition of late Rodney Barnett’s photography, which is on view at the Centre for Curating the Archive, Michaels School of Fine Arts. UCT, Orange Street, Cape Town.

• The second of the trilogy of elemental theme exhibitions: