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Arts > Photo > SA > Santu Mofokeng 1956-2020
Chief More’s Funeral, GaMogopa (1989).
Photograph: Santu Mofokeng
South African photographer Santu Mofokeng – in pictures The documentary photographer, best known for recording everyday life in the townships of South Africa, has died. His images illuminated the ordinary under apartheid, and captured a society in transformation after the regime ended The Guardian Tue 4 Feb 2020 09.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2020/feb/04/
“Democracy is Forever”, Pimville (2004).
Photograph: Santu Mofokeng
South African photographer Santu Mofokeng – in pictures The documentary photographer, best known for recording everyday life in the townships of South Africa, has died. His images illuminated the ordinary under apartheid, and captured a society in transformation after the regime ended G Tue 4 Feb 2020 09.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2020/feb/04/
Winter in Tembisa (c1991).
Photograph: Santu Mofokeng
South African photographer Santu Mofokeng – in pictures The documentary photographer, best known for recording everyday life in the townships of South Africa, has died. His images illuminated the ordinary under apartheid, and captured a society in transformation after the regime ended The Guardian Tue 4 Feb 2020 09.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2020/feb/04/
“Miriam Maine’s Funeral, Vaalrand Farm, Bloemhof,” 1990.
Photograph: Santu Mofokeng Foundation/ Lunetta Bartz, Maker, Johannesburg
Santu Mofokeng, Photographer of Apartheid Life, Dies at 63 His sublime black-and-white images of everyday life in South Africa both during and after white rule capture hope and unfulfilled expectations. Feb. 12, 2020 The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/
“Charles Rex Moabi, Jakkalsfontein,” 1989.
Photograph: Santu Mofokeng Foundation/Lunetta Bartz, Maker, Johannesburg
Santu Mofokeng, Photographer of Apartheid Life, Dies at 63 His sublime black-and-white images of everyday life in South Africa both during and after white rule capture hope and unfulfilled expectations. Feb. 12, 2020 The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/
"Concert at Sewefontein, Bloemhof,” 1988.
Photograph: Santu Mofokeng Foundation/Lunetta Bartz, Maker, Johannesburg
Santu Mofokeng, Photographer of Apartheid Life, Dies at 63 His sublime black-and-white images of everyday life in South Africa both during and after white rule capture hope and unfulfilled expectations. Feb. 12, 2020 The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/
Santu Mofokeng 1956-2020
South African news and documentary photographer
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2020/feb/04/
photographer whose searing images of everyday life in South Africa’s black townships documented the prospects of freedom from apartheid and the unfulfilled promise of its overthrow
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He had progressive supranuclear palsy, a degenerative brain disease that confined him to a wheelchair and left him unable to speak, according to South African news reports.
While Mr. Mofokeng (pronounced MOE-foe-keng) never considered himself an integral part of the struggle against apartheid, he was steeped in the policy’s consequences.
He was raised in an impoverished household by a single mother;
attended Morris Isaacson High School, which was a forge for the student uprising in Soweto in 1976 against white rule;
and witnessed his younger brother being beaten by white bullies retaliating for the protests against the government and its brutal suppression of dissent.
After beginning his career as a darkroom technician, Mr. Mofokeng plunged into photojournalism, covering demonstrations and strikes and the police’s implacable response — all of which attracted international attention, especially as documented by television cameras.
But he developed a thirst for more perspective than the daily deadlines could deliver, and he concluded that South Africa’s eventual transformation into a multiracial society would proceed slowly enough to be documented over time in stark black-and-white still photographs.
“While many other photographers have captured the spectacle of protest, Mofokeng has captured the more subtle sublimity of the body in pain, or the body transfigured — by political belief, by faith,” Ashraf Jamal, a cultural critic, wrote in Aperture.
“He is widely celebrated as the spiritual painter of South Africa’s tormented body politic, and his uniqueness lies in his ability to capture a subject’s aura, their life hidden from view.”
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