David Goldblatt

Mexico with its take on the dead

Article Staff Reporter - 9 Nov 2018

The celebration of the dead finds a resonance with the works of some of our leading creatives

Football takes a U-turn on its way ‘home’

Article Luke Feltham - 13 Jul 2018

How an earwormy, tongue-in-cheek song became an anthem of hope for Three Lions believers

‘Umlindelo’ captures the insider’s view from without

Article Nkgopoleng Moloi - 6 Jul 2018

Umlindelo wa Makholwa is not a series of images about religion, although it is born of religion

The essayist who froze history’s quiet moments

Article Niren Tolsi - 29 Jun 2018

David Goldblatt has left South African documentary photography incalculably richer, writes Niren Tolsi

David Goldblatt has died

Article Kiri Rupiah - 25 Jun 2018

The renowned photographer passed away in the early hours of Monday morning.

And God said: Let there be football

Article Luke Feltham - 29 Mar 2018

With substantially more followers than Christianity’s 2.3-billion, the beautiful game is a religion all of its own

The structures that David Goldblatt values

Article bogdan TagDiv - 23 Apr 2015

Photographer David Goldblatt and Jeremy Kuper discuss old monuments and moves by students to have statues like that of Cecil John Rhodes removed.

David Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally’s ‘Memory Against Forgetting’

Article Staff Reporter - 29 Jan 2015

David Goldblatt salutes a photographer whose work speaks fluently about people and events

David Goldblatt’s landscapes of high voltage

Article Melvyn Minnaar - 20 Nov 2014

Never obvious, photographer David Goldblatt’s landscapes are elegiac, silent – and monumental, writes Melvyn Minnaar.

Ayanda Mabulu’s painting back on display at Jo’burg art fair

Article Sapa - 29 Sep 2013

Ayanda Mabulu's Yakhali'inkomo -- Black Man's Cry has been put back on display at the FNB Joburg Art Fair.

Art Fair forced to reinstate Mabulu painting after Goldblatt threat

Article Matthew Krouse - 28 Sep 2013

The Jo'burg Art Fair will allow Ayanda Mabulu's controversial painting to stay after featured artist David Goldblatt threatened to quit in protest.

Art Fair in focus

Videos Staff Reporter - 27 Sep 2013

What's waiting for you at this year's FNB Jo'burg Art Fair? We get a sneak preview of the weekend ahead and chat to curators and artists.

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