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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)

The darkroom process of Black Photo Libraries

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

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

Ultimate sacrifice: The funeral of two youths abducted and killed in the ‘Natal War’ in 1987. Photo: Cedric Nunn

The Portfolio: Cedric Nunn

This photographer hopes that wise leadership arises to channel the energy of the youth of today, as did their forebears of 1976, into the actions that are necessary to truly…

Story of destruction told through photos of eerie beauty

Photographer Cedric Nunn’s travelling exhibition puts the spotlight on the South Africa’s past that’s been neglected, distorted or forgotten.

What’s waiting for you at this year’s FNB Jo’burg Art Fair? We get a sneak preview of the weekend ahead and chat to curators and artists.

Art Fair in focus

What’s waiting for you at this year’s FNB Jo’burg Art Fair? We get a sneak preview of the weekend ahead and chat to curators and artists.

This extraordinary photograph that is the centrepiece in a new book of Nunn’s work called Call and Response. We caught up again about our journey after the book’s recent launch in Johannesburg.

Cedric Nunn: Riding the wave on the cusp of sweeping change

Charles Leonard recalls the road trip that resulted in Cedric Nunn’s award-winning photograph.

Heeding the call to capture

Heeding the call to capture

Photographer Cedric Nunn had no choice but to pick up a camera and point it at the injustices of apartheid SA.

Photojournalism then … and now

Using words to convey the experience of visiting a photo exhibition means converting the event into a different currency of communication. But the coinage of text can’t recreate…