KAIROS Photo collection, Amsterdam
- ZA AFRAPIX AP3-AP3.9
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- 1980s
Werkgroep Kairos Photo Collection
KAIROS Photo collection, Amsterdam
Werkgroep Kairos Photo Collection
South Africa: The Cordoned Heart
Part of EXHIBITIONS BY AFRAPIX
The exhibition and subsequent book publication, was curated and produced by Omar Badsha, as a product of the photographic project for the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa in 1983. The exhibition was comprised of the work of 28 South African Photographers.
"On 24th April 1984 over 300 hundred academics, artists and photographers attended a conference at UCT where 300 research papers were presented and the exhibition titled South Africa The Cordoned Heart made up of over 36 photographic essays comprising of 386 images were exhibited in the foyer of UCT's Leslie Building. The exhibition was part of a mini cultural festival of film, music and performances. (Francis essay)"
South Africa: The Cordoned Heart: A short history of the photography project of the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa (Source: Omar Badsha website https://www.omarbadsha.co.za)
Part of EXHIBITIONS BY AFRAPIX
Crossroads '86 was an exhibition with photographs by Dave Hartman and Guy Tillim.
The images documented the destruction and forced removals of squatter communities from the Crossroads complex and KTC.
Taking Sides: Conflict in South Africa
Part of EXHIBITIONS BY AFRAPIX
Taking Sides: Conflict in South Africa 1984-1986: An Afrapix exhibition
The exhibition was compiled with photographs from the Afrapix collective, with the assistance of Oxfam, Canada. They depict images of conflict, funerals, youth, labour and culture vs Apartheid South Africa.
Part of EXHIBITIONS BY AFRAPIX
The photographs were used for an Afrapix exhibition entitled "Domestic Workers", with photographs by Giselle Wulfsohn, Paul Weinberg, Santu Mofokeng, Dave Hartman and Guy Tillim.
They are images of domestic workers at work, during their time off, in their own homes, and attending Centres where they learned sewing and other skills. Also included are photos of meetings of the South African Domestic Workers Union (SADWU), which was formed in November 1986, combining five domestic workers unions to one strong national trade union.
Part of EXHIBITIONS BY AFRAPIX
All our Children: Photo Exhibition
The exhibition was a joint project between Afrapix and Vumani. The images are of children of all races and from different socio-economic backgrounds. They depict living conditions in rural and urban environments in the 1980s, and some depict social upheaval.
The contributing photophers were: Gill de Vlieg, Paul Grendon, Steve Hilton-Barber, Chris Ledochowski, Pax Magwaza, Roger Meintjies, Santu Mofokeng, Eric Miller, Cedric Nunn, Guy Tillim, Paul Weinberg and Anna Zieminski. The pictures were printed by Graham Goddard and compiled by Chris Ledochowski.
Part of EXHIBITIONS BY AFRAPIX
Beyond the Barricades: Popular Resistance in South Africa in the 1980s
This exhibition (Editors, Omar Badsha, Gideon Mendel and Paul Weinberg) is an important collection of photographs by twenty South African photographers, mainly from the photographic collective, Afrapix. Both, the exhibition and subsequent book, have become an indispensable anthology of popular resistance in South Africa during the 1980’s. The collection highlights one of the longest and bloodiest periods of political resistance to apartheid, a time of mass mobilization and brutal repression when taking of images was often a matter of life and death.
487 numbered items, of which some have been retained by P. Lewis, which is indicated by the letters PL in the list attached here.
Including: Johannesburg municipality, with particular reference to finance, native treasury fund, beerhalls, Soweto, transport, housing, boundaries, Lenasia, Urban Bantu Council, electricity, birth statistics (black), schools, Botanic Garden and Dube hostel riots 1957. Also on the pass laws, recreation and community services, legislation affecting blacks, taxation, the Bantu in industry, homelands, Indians, migrant labour, rezoning of areas such as Vrededorp and Parktown, the development of Johannesburg, the Native Laws Commission Report 1946 1948 and the declaration of Uitlander Council 1899.
Key to the photographs, numbered 1-66, including a note by Professor Maingard saying that the handwriting was Miss Wilman's, dated 15 September 1955 (see the digitised item).
Explanatory notes relating to the photographs
Explanatory notes relating to the photographs, numbered 1-20, including a note by Professor Maingard saying that the handwriting was Miss Bleek's, dated 15 September 1955 (see the digitised item)