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In black and white: Many of the images taken by photographer Peter Magubane, who died on New Year’s Day, explored apartheid.
Powerful pictures: Award-winning photographer Peter Magubane is famous for his iconic images of the 16 June 1976 student uprising in Soweto as well as his photos of life in Johannesburg, the city where he was born.

Great shot: Peter Magubane’s weapon was his camera

Not only was he world renowned for his powerful images, he also used his talent to fight apartheid, at great personal cost

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

Thule Mavuso during her fifth birthday celebration. The Mavuso family always made sure to celebrate birthdays with cake and goodies. (Photo: Cynthia Mavuso)

The Portfolio: ‘How photographer Bongani Mnguni saw his death coming’

Lucia Mnguni remembers her husband Bongani Mnguni, who photographed some of South Africa’s most turbulent events

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

Melvyn Peters and Thandi Klaasens at the famed Rainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club in Pinetown. (All images by Rafs Mayet)

Why we need a South African jazz photography archive

We need more books about South African jazz, focusing on both the verbal and the visual, to fully capture and appreciate the unique ‘river of culture we’ve been bequeathed’

Taken in Thokoza township, Johannesburg, in 1991. The original photograph shows police officers watching an ANC rally while children taunt them from below. (Photograph: Graeme Williams)

On photographs and the art of ‘remixing’ images

We explore the issues involved in artists’ reasonable or fair use of other people’s works

Telling tales: Siphiwo Mahala’s world collided with that of Can Themba after Mahala presented a short story that people thought had been inspired by Themba’s play The Suit. Photo: Oupa Nkosi

​Discovering the world of Can Themba

Siphiwo Mahala talks about his fascination with the 1950s writer and journalist

Nandi Mayathula-Khoza

Steely resolve, unrelenting gaze

Veteran photographer Peter Magubane inspires both hero worship and interrogation, proof that at 86, he’s passed into the realm of legend

A struggle without documentation is no struggle: Peter Magubane

Shooting the struggle

Despite being kept in solitary for 20 months in total, a defiant Peter Magubane made it his mission to document South Africa’s turbulent history.

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…