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

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

  • Atiyyah Khan
12 min read
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
AFRICAN ART

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

  • Laurence Hamburger
8 min read
A photojournalist by formal training with a diploma in journalism and media studies, Mbulelo was a self-made intellectual and creative. Photo supplied
ANC ACTIVIST

Lower the flag for struggle photojournalist and intellectual Mbulelo Linda

Linda used his pen and camera to expose the unspeakable crimes of the apartheid regime and continued to fight for equality after democracy

  • Pedro Mzileni
5 min read
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu calling for peace in Katutura, Namibia in 1988. Photos: Rashid Lombard
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM

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.

  • Niren Tolsi
13 min read
Sam Nzima’s photograph of Hector Pieterson.
16 JUNE 1976

A portal to empathy: Photographs that change the world

It is important not to look away from visceral pictorial evidence of the suffering of disempowered people

  • Sazi Bongwe
6 min read
As Ugandans prepare to go to the polls in January 2021, the involvement of security forces in the electoral process is a given and political reform seems a long way off
FLOODING

‘He ain’t heavy, he’s a policeman and he’s paying . . .’

The story behind Ugandan photojournalist Nicholas Bamulanzeki’s iconic picture of the policeman in the floods

  • Andrew Arinaitwe
3 min read
Spitting fire (2010) is a synthesis of the cornerstones of Khaya Ngwenya’s style, which include studying light, colour and facial features.
INTELEZI

The Portfolio: Khaya Ngwenya

Photojournalist Khaya Ngwenya’s style focus on exploiting natural light while staying in motion

  • Khaya Ngwenya
3 min read