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...photographers shouldn’t confuse their response to the politics of the country with their role as photographers.

— David Goldblatt

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During those years color seemed too sweet a medium to express the anger, disgust and fear that apartheid inspired, ...

My father regarded nationalism, including Zionism, as an evil and although he never attempted to convince me of his views, his logic, here, was inescapable.

I often wished during those years that I could be a lyricist with a camera. [...] I took great delight in [Edward Weston's] and many other photographers’ work. I envied them the freedom to photograph a landscape apparently without concern for the implications of its possession.

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