CHALLENGING SOUTH AFRICA’S PAST – Three Distinctive Viewpoints
Many of us know little about the complexity and challenges of the people of South Africa. The following three differring viewpoints about the diversity, cultures, and the hopes and dreams of the people who live there, will help us to understand through contemporary photographs what South Africa is now. Notice too, how the photographic message can be interpreted/read differently from a political, social, outsider or insider point of view.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1. BBC News in Pictures – The article starts: “During South Africa’s apartheid era the most common photographs to emerge from the country were of violence, poverty and inequality. But now there is a new breed of photographer flourishing in the formerly segregated nation.”
Click HERE for a glimpse of the show at the V&A Museum, London that ran from April 12 – July 17, 2011 and watch the video with Tamar Garb talking about images of urban sophistication and personal empowerment, poverty, AIDS, homophobia and zenophobia. The exhibition was co-curated by Tamar Garb and Martin Barnes. Continue reading →
