As he says, “I live at the back of an RDP house in Mfuleni on the Cape Flats. I experience issues like poor sanitation, access to clean water and the flooding first hand”. Photographing the lack of sanitation was not pleasant for him, but he did not want a photographer from outside the community telling their stories while he watched on. “That too would be a Drain on Our Dignity and that’s what inspired this project”.
A Drain On Our Dignity echoes the ground-breaking images produced by Ernest Cole in the early 1960s, showing black life under apartheid. It is a sensitive and honest look at what lack of services is, what it does to a community and what it does to a people.
Without the screaming, fighting or burning – these captivating images compel the reader to look at what is happening in the Cape Town townships.
Or split into 4x interest-free payments of 25% on orders over R50
Learn more
As he says, “I live at the back of an RDP house in Mfuleni on the Cape Flats. I experience issues like poor sanitation, access to clean water and the flooding first hand”. Photographing the lack of sanitation was not pleasant for him, but he did not want a photographer from outside the community telling their stories while he watched on. “That too would be a Drain on Our Dignity and that’s what inspired this project”.
A Drain On Our Dignity echoes the ground-breaking images produced by Ernest Cole in the early 1960s, showing black life under apartheid. It is a sensitive and honest look at what lack of services is, what it does to a community and what it does to a people.
Without the screaming, fighting or burning – these captivating images compel the reader to look at what is happening in the Cape Town townships.
Imprint | Jacana Media |
Country of origin | South Africa |
Release date | September 2017 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
Authors | Masixole Feni |
Dimensions | 241 x 257 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 96 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4314-2552-5 |
Barcode | 9781431425525 |
Categories | |
LSN | 1-4314-2552-4 |