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Jazz in focus: The Peffers Fine Art booth at the RMB Latitudes Art Fair in Cape Town

Jazz in focus: Capturing a sound in image

From rare Ernest Cole prints to iconic portraits of Makeba and Masekela, this show captures the musicians and the energy of live music itself

Bound: Black men arrested for being in white area illegally. Photo: Ernest Cole

Brash photographer Ernest Cole revisited

House of Bondage: The book that shocked the world

Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse. Photo: Lindo Mbhele

Hotstix’s  hug a celebration of survival

The Jazz Expressions concert in level one lockdown was a reaquaintance with friends, music and jazz photography

Thule Mavuso during her fifth birthday celebration. The Mavuso family always made sure to celebrate birthdays with cake and goodies. (Photo: Cynthia Mavuso)

The Portfolio: ‘How photographer Bongani Mnguni saw his death coming’

Lucia Mnguni remembers her husband Bongani Mnguni, who photographed some of South Africa’s most turbulent events

Together in song: There was a band called Fire Brigade owned by Cynthia Mavuso’s father that used to rehearse at his home. On this particular day in the 1990s, they had held a beauty contest called Miss Fire Brigade. (Cynthia Mavuso)

The abysmal state of South Africa’s photo archives

With most photographers struggling to raise capital to digitise work, those that have managed to do so have mostly used their own resources

Watching and learning: Peter Magubane with a BaNtwane elder at a rites of passage ceremony near Groblersdaal in 2008. Photo: Dave Meyer-Gollan

Black Photo Libraries: Peter Magubane on the struggle for documentation

Peter Magubane, whose images set him on a collision course with the apartheid government, pays tribute to his colleagues in this foreword to a new book

Photographer Jurgen Schadeberg, 2016  (Alberto Domingo)

Obituary: The pointillist detail and zen brush strokes of Jürgen Schadeberg

‘Drum’ photographer Jürgen Schadenberg, who died on Sunday, displayed a profound humanism, writes his friend and sometime collaborator Hazel Friedman

Melvyn Peters and Thandi Klaasens at the famed Rainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club in Pinetown. (All images by Rafs Mayet)

Why we need a South African jazz photography archive

We need more books about South African jazz, focusing on both the verbal and the visual, to fully capture and appreciate the unique ‘river of culture we’ve been bequeathed’

History for sale: Images such as these of Winnie and Nelson Mandela

Exposed: SA’s iconic pics plundered

Our photographic heritage is being stolen by pirates peddling ‘pictures of pictures’

A life lived vividly

A life lived vividly, loudly

Tiisetso Makube pays tribute to legendary Soweto photographer Alf Kumalo.

Selebi saga bags M&G top newspaper award

The saga of police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi has won the Mail & Guardian‘s investigations team the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Award for story of the year, it was…