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Caption: Rashid Lombard at the Cape Town Press Centre in Shortmarket Street, 1989, photo from the Shadley Lombard archive.

Visionary with a camera: Rashid Lombard’s lasting legacy

Rashid Lombard, legendary photojournalist and jazz aficionado, has died at 74 — leaving behind a legacy of resistance, rhythm and relentless storytelling

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

Generational wealth: An archive of 60 000 negatives in a Swedish bank was published posthumously by the
Ernest Cole Family Trust through Aperture in the book The True America in 2023. Photo: Ernest Cole

A legacy in focus: The long shadow of Ernest Cole

Ernest Cole’s lens captured apartheid’s truth and his legacy continues to shape creatives today

Ernest Cole Lost And Found By Raoul Peck (c) Ernest Cole

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found — A profound portrait of the artist in exile

Ernest Cole’s untold story comes home — with a revealing documentary premiering at the Joburg Film Festival this week

Previously unseen: In 1964 Cole travelled to Frenchdale, a remote settlement in the Northern Cape, to document the lives of these internally displaced political exiles

A reshoot of Ernest Cole

Three decades after his death the apartheid-era maverick photographer is still revealing himself

Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s ntombi zakwaNala eMtyamde from his show Umkhondo: Going Deeper.

Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s Umkhondo reflects memory and loss through photography

The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on South Africa’s history through deeply personal stories of loss, memory and healing.

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

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu calling for peace in Katutura, Namibia in 1988. Photos: Rashid Lombard

The Rashid Lombard Archive is where it’s happening

With the induction last week of the Rashid Lombard Archive at the University of the Western Cape his photography and stories will soon be accessible to a new generation.

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

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

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

Beauty in ugliness: An image from 2015 Ernest Cole award-winner’s series Drain on Our Dignity

Through the looking glass

The slow pace of the Ernest Cole award’s inclusivity may have marred its image.

Masixole Feni’s ‘Crossing over the unbearable canal’

Masixole Feni: Urban filth unfiltered by the lens

Raised in the school of hard knocks, a photographer is shunning the limelight to document township ills.