This page gathers photographers connected to South Africa and traces how each links to a period and movement in the history of photography.
Born near Pretoria, South Africa, in 1940, Ernest Cole emerged from the Black journalism culture around Drum and, in House of Bondage (1967), linked mines, pass laws, commuter …
South African photographer and painter born in 1960 in Durban. Known for large-format color portraits of people in townships, informal settlements, workplaces, and interior …
Collaborative artists and photographers who worked together for more than two decades, becoming central figures in contemporary photography’s critique of documentary and …
Pieter Hugo is a South African photographer based in Cape Town. Through frontal, large-scale portraits, he fixes people, places, animals, waste, and family inside forceful …