South Africa: Ernest Cole - the South African Photographer At the Centre of a Powerful and Heartbreaking Film

South Africa: Ernest Cole - the South African Photographer At the Centre of a Powerful and Heartbreaking Film

Analysis - Ernest Cole is famous for photographing the everyday realities of South Africa's racist apartheid system. His 1967 book House of Bondage ensured his damning critique of the white minority regime was seen by the world. But its publication sent him into exile and was banned at home.

Ernest Cole: the South African photographer at the centre of a powerful and heartbreaking film

Ernest Cole is famous for photographing the everyday realities of South Africa’s racist apartheid system. His 1967 book House of Bondage ensured his damning critique of the white minority regime was seen by the world. But its publication sent him into exile and was banned at home. The startling discovery of a vast archive of his work in a Swedish bank vault in 2017 has returned him to public view. House of Bondage was republished in 2023 and the…

In his film portrait "Lost and Found," director Raoul Peck recalls the odyssey of South African photographer Ernest Cole - and delves deeply into his photographic and political legacy

In 2017, a Swedish bank safe discovered the work of photographer Ernest Cole. In his new film, director Raoul Peck tells the life of South Africans and shows his great photographs Both the life and the work of South African photographer Ernest Cole are so full of fascinating, impressive and often enough depressing details that it didn't need a veritable mystery to make him interesting. Raoul Peck nevertheless puts it right at the beginning of hi…