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.
Including articles: Beyond the barricades: Collectivism in the 80s The rainy season, John Liebenberg in Namibia Going home, by Santu Mofokeng and Paul Weinberg Gallery, with images from Pax Magwaza and Graeme Williams Khikhi hostels, by Roger Meintjes
Including articles: Troyville, by Jenny Gordon Structures, by David Goldblatt War in Natal, by Guy Tillim A view from exile, by George Hallett The way we live, Mavis Mthandeki, Primrose Talakumeni