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Gideon Mendel: Freedom or Death (Gost Books, 2019)

By: Thomas Schulz 30/05/2020

Classic, Contemporary, PhotobookApartheid, Art, Black and White, Book, Color, documentary photography, Gideon Mendel, Photography, South Africa, Street Photography, UrbanLeave a Comment

Born in Johannesburg in 1959, Mendel began his career as a news and ‘struggle’ photographer documenting the final years of apartheid. This experience marked him deeply, and much of his subsequent work has been engaged with the key political issues facing his generation.

Pieter Hugo: There’s A Place in Hell for Me and My Friends (oodee ,2012)

By: Thomas Schulz 16/05/201922/05/2019

Contemporary, PhotobookBeauty, Black and White, Identity, oodee, photo manipulation, Pieter Hugo, Portrait Photography, Skin, South AfricaLeave a Comment

Pieter Hugo’s There’s a Place in Hell for Me & My Friends is a series of close-up portraits of the artist and his friends, all of whom call South Africa home.

Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness (Aperture, 2018)

By: Thomas Schulz 22/12/201804/01/2019

Contemporary, PhotobookBeauty, Black and White, Gender, Identity, LGBT, Portrait Photography, queer photography, self portrait photography, South Africa, Zanele MuholiLeave a Comment

Zanele Muholi (born in Umlazi, South Africa, 1972) is a visual activist and photographer, cofounder of the Forum for the Empowerment of Women, and founder of Inkanyiso, a forum for queer and visual media.