Shadow Is the Essential Vehicle
Santu Mofokeng
The Black Photo Album / Look at Me, 1997
35 mm slide projection, 80 slides, black and white, duration: 6min, 40sec
The Black Photo Album / Look at Me, 1997
35 mm slide projection, 80 slides, black and white, duration: 6min, 40sec
Comrade Sister, White City Jabavu, ca. 1985, from the series “Townships,” 1985–87
photography is mostly about projections. You project yourself, you bring yourself, you respond to things according to your own background, knowledge and history. Sometimes what you bring is your preconception.
— Santu Mofokeng
June 16 Commemoration, Regina Mundi, Soweto, 1986
Lake Once Filled with the Ashes of the Cremated, KZ2–Auschwitz, 1997
gelatin silver print. From the series “Landscapes of Trauma,” 1997–2004
Church of God, 1996, Motouleng Cave, Clarens
Christmas Church Service, Mautse Cave, ca. 2000, from the series “Chasing Shadows,” 1996–2006
Mthunzi and Miesie Making Supplications to the Ancestors Inside the Motouleng Sanctum – Free State, 2008, from the series “Chasing Shadows,” 1996–2006
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