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The story of Ernest Cole, a black photographer in South Africa during apartheid
The story of Ernest Cole, a black photographer in South Africa during apartheid
Sue Williamson, For Thirty Years Next to His Heart
Made four years before the end of the apartheid system, Williamson has repurposed a passbook carried by a Black South African for three decades
Jane Alexander, Butcher Boys
To acknowledge the truly violent nature of humankind is to implicate one’s self in a relationship to such atrocities.
William Kentridge, drawing from Tide Table (Soho in Deck Chair)
On a beach in a suit, a discordant image, like South Africa, where it was made.
Marlene Dumas, Models
Dumas paints from photographs, and deliberately makes her pictures strange, unsettling, and ugly.
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