Ter­ry Kur­gan is an artist and writer based in Johan­nes­burg. Her work fre­quent­ly explores the medi­um of pho­tog­ra­phy. Her recent book Every­one is Present won the 2019 Alan Paton Award (South Africa), was select­ed as a final­ist for the 2019 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards (USA), and was short­list­ed for the 2019 Pho­to Arles Book Prize (France).