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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.
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

  • Kibo Ngowi
7 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
Young men with dompas (an Identity document every African had to carry), White City, Jabavu, Soweto, 1972
AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY

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

  • Drew Thompson
8 min read