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Peter Magubane, a South African photographer who captured 40 years of apartheid, dies at age 91 (apnews.com)

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Peter Magubane, a fearless photographer who captured the violence and horror of South Africa’s apartheid era of racial oppression, and was entrusted with documenting Nelson Mandela’s first years of freedom after his release from prison, has died. He was 91.

Magubane died Monday, according to the South African National Editors’ Forum, which said it had been informed of his death by his family.

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[-] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Good read (Short interview for the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/12/peter-magubane-best-photograph-white-girl-black-maid-apartheid-south-africa

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Soweto uprising became a pivotal moment in the struggle for democracy in South Africa after police opened fire on the young protesters, killing at least 176 of them and drawing international outrage.

Magubane became a target of the apartheid government after photographing a protest outside a jail where Mandela’s then-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was being held in 1969.

He was imprisoned numerous times during his career and subjected to a five-year ban that prevented him from working or even leaving his home without police permission.

Faced with the option of leaving South Africa to go into exile because he was a marked man by the apartheid regime, he chose to stay and continue taking photographs.

The photo spoke of the absurdity of the forced system of racial segregation given that so many white children were looked after by Black women.

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