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The age of the image is here

Kylie Bolton by Kylie Bolton 21 August 202020 August 2020

The digital age widens who is able to co-construct history and reconstruct South Africa

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The dangerous sentimentality of Alice Mann’s ‘Domestic Bliss’

Lwandile Fikeni by Lwandile Fikeni 1 July 201410 July 2014

A photographic series by a white employer on her domestic worker was always going to be problematic, but I didn’t know how problematic until I was presented with Alice Mann’s Domestic Bliss. In her artist statement she says: “This series of portraits depicts black, female domestic workers in the homes of their white employers in […]

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