His photos and videos depicting postcolonialism and everyday life in Africa have been overlooked.
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The winner of the prestigious FNB Art Prize documents township life in lockdown and rural life in a former homeland.
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.
In less than a year the newsletter has become important and influential, offering a new way of appreciating African photography.
From butchers to hawkers, and shelters to miners, this book reveals the informal economy and texture of the city.
Cole was a master of portraying the violence of apartheid through scenes of everyday life.
‘A camera is more powerful than an AK47,’ said the veteran photojournalist, who was also famous for his jazz photos.
Two striking images - from the 1940s and the 1960s - help reveal the rich but still emerging history of street photography in the country.
Images of white Namibian farmers and their workers and a collection of portraits by travelling black photographers form part of the early archive.
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.
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.
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Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer (Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork), NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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Visiting senior lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory, University of the Western Cape
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Senior lecturer, University of Basel
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Senior Lecturer in Photography, Anglia Ruskin University
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Associate Professor of English, State University of New York Oswego
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Lecturer at Journalism and Global Communication, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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PhD Candidate in Journalism, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
