George Hallett
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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
George Hallett: Nomad, raconteur and photographer who ‘became the camera’
The renowned South African photographer understood how to look for the tucked-away spaces that were the sources of both light and dark
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’
People of the pen
George Hallett’s Portraits of African Writers begins with his tutorship under writer Richard Rive in the late Fifties and ends with studies of today’s exceptional talent.