Santu Mofokeng
Santu Mofokeng is one of South Africa’s leading photographers. He began his career as a street photographer in Soweto and through the 80s he worked on the documentary coverage of the anti-Apartheid struggle. At the end of the decade, Mofokeng decided to leave the field of overtly political photojournalism and to engage in the representation of everyday-life in the South African township.
Articles by Santu Mofokeng
Chasing shadows
Santu Mofokeng is one of South Africa’s most celebrated photographers, recognised for his work with the Afrapix collective and on the newspaper New Nation. In these photographs he records a country struggling to come to terms with its past and future
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