Just three months after his left arm was amputated in 1990, Mohamed Amin was back at work with a bionic arm.
Courtesy The Mohamed Amin Collection
His photos and videos depicting postcolonialism and everyday life in Africa have been overlooked.
An image from the Lockdown series that won the 2023 FNB Art Prize.
Images courtesy Lindokuhle Sobekwa.
The winner of the prestigious FNB Art Prize documents township life in lockdown and rural life in a former homeland.
A World In Common at Tate Modern.
Tate Modern/Lucy Green
A World in Common is a European exhibition with African content, rather than a space that invites conversations and engagement that go beyond the images themselves.
The brains behind the popular photography newsletter is Nigerian writer, editor, publisher, and art critic Emmanuel Iduma.
Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images
In less than a year the newsletter has become important and influential, offering a new way of appreciating African photography.
An abandoned gold mine in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Mark Lewis/Wake Up, This Is Joburg
From butchers to hawkers, and shelters to miners, this book reveals the informal economy and texture of the city.
Men wait for at a railway station for transport to a mine.
Ernest Cole/© Ernest Cole Family Trust/Courtesy Wits Historical Papers/Photography Legacy Project
Cole was a master of portraying the violence of apartheid through scenes of everyday life.
Mike Mzileni at home in 2018.
Screenshot City Press/News24 Video
‘A camera is more powerful than an AK47,’ said the veteran photojournalist, who was also famous for his jazz photos.
Detail of a photograph by Anne Fischer, Cape Town, c. 1940s.
Anne Fischer/Courtesy Iziko Museums of South Africa, Social History Collections/University of Cape Town Library Special Collections
Two striking images - from the 1940s and the 1960s - help reveal the rich but still emerging history of street photography in the country.
Detail of an Aneliese Scherz photograph from 1930s Namibia.
Anneliese Scherz/Basler Afrika Bibliographien Scherz Collection
Images of white Namibian farmers and their workers and a collection of portraits by travelling black photographers form part of the early archive.
Jürgen Schadeberg in 1955 with trainee photographers at Drum, Peter Magubane, left, and Bob Gosani. Both became well-known photographers.
© Jürgen Schadeberg
The gift of his images lies in their depiction of the social worlds that apartheid sought to destroy, but that live on through the photographs.
Buddhist Retreat, near Ixopo (2003)
Santu Mofokeng/Santu Mofokeng Foundation
No South African photographer leaves a more substantial legacy than Santu Mofokeng. He was adept at mapping interior worlds through haunting images of black life and, above all, his landscapes.