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Exhibition: Sixty years after District Six was declared a white area, its former residents and their descendants still carry its street names, stories and relationships with them. Jimi Matthews’s photographs caught the landscape while that destruction was taking place.
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The photographs that connect two histories of displacement

Veteran photographer Jimi Matthews pairs his archive of apartheid-era forced removals in District Six with intimate portraits of daily life and resilience in Palestine in a…

  • Hasina Kathrada
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