His groundbreaking series of publications it was the result of his multi-year collaboration between a bookmaker and an editor. Heralded for his ambivalent portrayals of townships life in South Africa, Santu Mofokeng https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Shadows-Mofokeng-Corinne-Diserens/dp/3791345850 had become a member of the Afrapix collective, documentary photographer and independent artist.
As a black photographer under apartheid, he was one of the few to document South African communities up close. His images offer a more nuanced understanding of daily life under apartheid and after. South African photographer Santu Mofokeng https://steidl.de/Books/Stories-1829404248.html, born in 1956 and grew up in Soweto (a township on the outskirts of Johannesburg), documented the everyday lives of rural sharecroppers and of labourers. He has been aware of his position as an image-maker, in a deeply divided society. Inequality and deep political divisions marked his life.
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