~ Mack Magagane“I actually give … props to our great South African photographers for actually even having the courage … to show what things that were happening in South Africa that people didn’t see.”
Gille de Vlieg, a home-maker and a nurse, picked up the camera mid life. It was in the 1980s, when she as a member of the Black Sash stood up against the human rights abuses more »
Paul Weinberg is a documentary photographer and founding member of Afrapix, the photo collective that fought the Apartheid machine with their cameras. We meet at Weinberg’s office at the University of Cape Town, where he more »
Graeme Williams photographed South Africa’s transition to democracy. He is now revisiting Johannesburg’s inner city with his camera – as well as other significant places he photographed during the violent struggle here. He says that more »
Themba Hadebe, now an Associated Press, AP, photographer, grew up in Thokoza, a township near Johannesburg. In the early 90s, “black-on-black violence” between the African National Congress, ANC, and the Inkatha Freedom Party, IFP, flared more »
Santu Mofokeng photographed township life and the struggle against Apartheid. He is since known for his eerily empty and beautiful landscapes, and often their connection to ancestral worship there. When we meet at Mofokeng’s home more »
Mack Magagane is a young South African photographer emerging from the Market Photo Workshop, which has played a big role in training photographers here, ensuring that visual literacy reaches neglected and marginalised parts of society. more »
David Goldblatt has been critically exploring South African society with his camera for six decades, starting during Apartheid. We meet at Goldblatt’s home in Johannesburg to talk about his most recent work on ex-offenders and more »
Jodi Bieber – who won her 10th World Press Photo Award last year – has travelled all over the world, but still prefers to call South Africa home. When we meet at her Johannesburg flat more »
The first video published on PhotographyAndDemocracy.com is an interview with South African photographer Cedric Nunn who describes how he became a photographer to engage politically in the struggle against Apartheid. Nunn will be followed by more »
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PhotographyAndDemocracy.com is a new website hosting a video project about photography and democracy in South Africa. Here you can view a series of video interviews – to be published in succession – with South African more »
Greetings, wouldn’t it be cool if there was updated content here? This project – photographyanddemocracy.com – and the funding for it, finished several years ago. Yet I’ve kept the site up as a service to more »
As South Africa celebrates 20 years of democracy, photographer Joao Silva contemplates, in the NYT Lens blog, his own and the country’s journey since the struggle against Apartheid. “Joao Silva came of age as a more »