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Peter Magubane Quotes

1932–2024 South Africa

Peter Sexford Magubane OMSS (18 January 1932 – 1 January 2024) was a South African photographer and anti-apartheid activist. He began taking photos as a school boy and started professional photography at the Drum.

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I wanted to be one of the best photojournalists and show the world how apartheid operated, what was going on in my country.

I would walk the streets of Johannesburg taking pictures, refining my craft.

The only way to show the world is with pictures. You can write a whole book, but I’ll give you one picture that will show the whole world the extent of apartheid and the kind of beast it is.

I was not allowed to take pictures. It was even worse because I was black. Now I was fighting, I was fighting for my rights and to get the pictures for the newspaper.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Magubane (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.