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![Santu Mofokeng, <em>Train Churches</em>](https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/the-book-johanesburg-570x350.jpg)
Santu Mofokeng, Train Churches
Santu Mofokeng's Train Churches shows people preaching, praying, healing, dancing, and making music while commuting on train cars in South Africa.
![The story of Ernest Cole, a black photographer in South Africa during apartheid](https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-14-at-10.23.54-PM.png)
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, <em>For Thirty Years Next to His Heart</em>](https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Williamson-grid-570x350.jpg)
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, <em>Butcher Boys</em>](https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Butcher-thumb-570x350.jpg)
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 <em>Tide Table (Soho in Deck Chair)</em>](https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/kentridge-thumb-570x350.jpg)
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, <em>Models</em>](https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dumas-Models-thumb-570x350.jpg)
Marlene Dumas, Models
Dumas paints from photographs, and deliberately makes her pictures strange, unsettling, and ugly.