The exhibition was a collaborative project between Afrapix and Critical Health, sponsored by MEDICO and printed by Graham Goddard.

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.

The photographs by Afrapix photographers were used for an exhibition depicting women in various settings. The images are of relocations (forced removals - Weenen and others), women workers and farm workers, demonstrations by women, FEDTRAW rally, women in trade unions, women affected by violence, and living conditions of women in urban environments.

Photographers include: Paul Weinberg, Chris Ledochowski, Lesley Lawson, Gill de Vlieg, Anna Zieminski, Cedric Nunn, Gisele Wulfsohn, Dave Hartman, Paul Grendon, Guy Tillim, Pax Magwaza, Gill Cargill, Steve Hilton-Barber.