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Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse. Photo: Lindo Mbhele

Hotstix’s  hug a celebration of survival

The Jazz Expressions concert in level one lockdown was a reaquaintance with friends, music and jazz photography

The darkroom process of Black Photo Libraries

A book of photographers with no photographs highlights the ownership battles black lensmen are still battling

Melvyn Peters and Thandi Klaasens at the famed Rainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club in Pinetown. (All images by Rafs Mayet)

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’

Former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede. (Wikus De Wet/AFP)

Timmy’s copped it – or so I thought

Instead, it’s Mama, the former Durban mayor who may have been wading through the solid waste tender, the Hawks are visiting

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Dawn’s the time to oil the joints

It’s in the early morning that things catch up with you and force you to seek relief

Ray Phiri

Rest in Peace

They left us in 2017

In perspective: Niamh Walsh-Vorster’s ‘naively taken’ photograph of a woman in Nieu-Bethesda

Beware the white gaze

Photography is an art plagued by colonial voyeurism and today’s creators need to keep this in mind

Lust for life: Peter McKenzie looked beyond the obvious to reveal his subjects’ complexity. Photo: Reedwan Vally

One last, exhilarating swim with true rebel Peter McKenzie

They tilt the urn. The grey ash that was our brother spills out. Some of it is carried by the wind, writes Paddy Harper.

Lust for life: Peter McKenzie looked beyond the obvious to reveal his subjects’ complexity. Photo: Reedwan Vally

Making photos, forging connections

Remembering Peter McKenzie, whose work spanned the breadth of his considerable creative imagination and highly political sense of social justice.

Andre P. Brink

We mourn a friend and fighter as Zuma jols in Nigeria

Photographer, filmmaker and activist Peter McKenzie — ‘who wielded his camera the way other people use petrol bombs or saxophones’ — has died