South African Photographers

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$Rebuild: South African photographer David Goldblatt’s exhibition Fragments of Fietas on at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg honours the resilience of a community fractured and displaced by apartheid.$

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

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

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

Young men with dompas (an Identity document every African had to carry), White City, Jabavu, Soweto, 1972

AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Itâ€™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