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Rebuild: South African photographer David Goldblatt’s exhibition Fragments of Fietas on at the Goodman
Gallery in Johannesburg honours the resilience of a community fractured and displaced by apartheid.

Fietas and the enduring question of home

David Goldblatt’s Fragments of Fietas captures more than loss — it reveals how memory, belonging, and faith survive even after home is erased

Just joking: Kwanda Radebe hosts the comedy and jazz series.

Diary: Jokes & Jazz for UKZN, Strauss & Co photography auction, Locarno comes to Cape Town

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Lithuanian Ambassador Rasa Jankauskaite delivers an address at Sammy Marks Museum.

Lithuania celebrates 34 years of independence 

On 11 March 1990, 50 years of Soviet occupation came to an end

‘Arrive Alive’. A man keeps warm under a flyover in downtown Johannesburg. Photos: David Edwards

Gritty photographer’s work ‘speaks to the stamina and resilience of ordinary people’

David Edwards captures the soul of inner-city Johannesburg – the beauty and the harsh realities

Building trust: An image from Daleside: Static Dreams, a collaborative photo book by Lindokuhle Sobekwa and Cyprien Clément-Delmas which explores the farming community of Daleside. Sobekwa’s work will show as part of of blood, sweat and data, a show curated by Through the Lens Creative and Studio Nxumalo. It will show at The Zone @ Rosebank as part of FNB Art Joburg.

The Portfolio: Lindokuhle Sobekwa

For this Thokoza-born photographer, intimacy is important, no matter where he is positioned

Hasan and Husain Essop’s Facing Giblah, 2010, inhabits the mode of self-portraiture, accounting for several photographs in this Standard Bank Gallery exhibition.

‘Photographs In Our Mother Tongue’: The new South Africa under scrutiny

A retrospective of photographic works at the Standard Bank Gallery offers a snapshot in time

Argentina player Diego Maradona (c) takes on the Belguim defence during the 1982 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and Belgium at the Nou Camp stadium on June 13, 1982 in Barcelona, Spain.  (Photo by Steve Powell/Allsport/Getty Images)

Football legend Maradona dies

The Argentinian icon died at his home on Wednesday, two weeks after having surgery on a blood clot in his brain

Artist and photographer Thembi Mthembu pictured at the Gulf of Venice in 2019. (Thembi Mthembu)

Talking Bodies: Photographers use self-portraits to tell stories

Mandisa Buthelezi and Thembi Mthembu are adding depth to the photographic archive through their self-portraits with captions and historical reframing

Portia Zvavahera’s Embraced and Protected in You (above) and Robin Rhode’s digital animation, Untitled, Harvest, also have a role in the cross-cultural exchange in Mexico. (Jail Olmedo)

Mexico with its take on the dead

The celebration of the dead finds a resonance with the works of some of our leading creatives

Croatia fans poke fun at World Cup semifinals losers England following the Balkan country’s victory.

Football takes a U-turn on its way ‘home’

How an earwormy, tongue-in-cheek song became an anthem of hope for Three Lions believers

The believers: Nhlapho

‘Umlindelo’ captures the insider’s view from without

Umlindelo wa Makholwa is not a series of images about religion, although it is born of religion

Connections: Far from the ‘plodder’ and the ‘coward’ that he painted himself as

The essayist who froze history’s quiet moments

David Goldblatt has left South African documentary photography incalculably richer, writes Niren Tolsi

David Goldblatt.

David Goldblatt has died

The renowned photographer passed away in the early hours of Monday morning.

Divine game: A mural by Argentine artist Santiago Spiga depicting modern demigod Diego Maradona ‘s ‘hand of God’

And God said: Let there be football

With substantially more followers than Christianity’s 2.3-billion, the beautiful game is a religion all of its own

Young men with dompas (an Identity document every African had to carry), White City, Jabavu, Soweto, 1972

It’s not all black and white

A new David Goldblatt exhibition in Paris raises questions about the photographer in relation to documentary practice in South Africa

The structures that David Goldblatt values

Photographer David Goldblatt and Jeremy Kuper discuss old monuments and moves by students to have statues like that of Cecil John Rhodes removed.

David Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally’s ‘Memory Against Forgetting’

David Goldblatt salutes a photographer whose work speaks fluently about people and events

Photographer David Goldblatt’s landscapes are elegiac

David Goldblatt’s landscapes of high voltage

Never obvious, photographer David Goldblatt’s landscapes are elegiac, silent – and monumental, writes Melvyn Minnaar.

Ayanda Mabulu. (David Harrison, M&G)

Ayanda Mabulu’s painting back on display at Jo’burg art fair

Ayanda Mabulu’s Yakhali’inkomo — Black Man’s Cry has been put back on display at the FNB Joburg Art Fair.

Art Fair forced to reinstate Mabulu painting after Goldblatt threat

The Jo’burg Art Fair will allow Ayanda Mabulu’s controversial painting to stay after featured artist David Goldblatt threatened to quit in protest.