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

Brash photographer Ernest Cole revisited

House of Bondage: The book that shocked the world

  • Oupa Nkosi
6 min read
Cynthia Mavuso’s daughter Sithembile Mavuso, pictured below in the 90s, loved taking photos would say: ‘When your mom is a photographer, you don’t need a special occasion to take photos.’ The brooch on her shirt was a photo she used as an accessory. (Cynthia Mavuso)
BLACK PHOTO LIBRARIES

The darkroom process of Black Photo Libraries

A book of photographers with no photographs highlights the ownership battles black lensmen are still battling

  • Niren Tolsi
9 min read
Watching and learning: Peter Magubane with a BaNtwane elder at a rites of passage ceremony near Groblersdaal in 2008. Photo: Dave Meyer-Gollan
ALF KHUMALO

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

  • Peter Magubane
7 min read