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born 1951 South Africa
David Lurie (born 1951) is a South African photographer, living and working in Cape Town.
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‘How to excavate below our conventional sight level to recover the views of myth and memory that lie beneath a surface that conceals more than it reveals, given the … limitations of the medium?”
How to capture this perspective in landscape photographs in this achingly beautiful region’
I focus on the excluded, warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy, a habitat largely constructed out of crude brick, recycled plastic, metal sheets, cardboard, cement blocks, and scrap wood, surrounded by pollution, excrement, and decay.
My book portrays a vast humanity living on the edge of Cape Town. My book portrays a vast humanity living on the edge of Cape Town.