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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

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

Police block the way to a Volgograd train station after a female suicide bomber blew up the entrance hall

South African photography at the Barbican

South African photographers Nadav Kander and Guy Tillim interrogate the built environment to uncover its sensibilities alongside the sublime.

The Libreville series by Guy Tillim.

In the land of the blind, the lens is king

Photographer Guy Tillim’s new exhibition focuses on power and ideology in Africa, where wealth nestles happily beside troubling poverty.

Letting the everyday into the earthly paradise

Letting the everyday into the earthly paradise

It is rare to find art that is both beautiful and thoughtful, but Guy Tillim’s <em>Second Nature</em> achieves both.

Ghosts of the past

Shaun de Waal looks at three photographic books that illuminate our history and raise some intriguing questions about the present.

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…