Le Journal de la Photographie

"Man at home, Clanwilliam, 1975. Clanwilliam is a small town, 250km northwest of Cape Town. Doom, a popular insecticide, on the ledge, adds a visual element of dark prophecy in a country at the crossroads of its history." 'Beneath the surface' - an exhibition of photographs by Steve Bloom of So...

"Man at home, Clanwilliam, 1975. Clanwilliam is a small town, 250km northwest of Cape Town. Doom, a popular insecticide, on the ledge, adds a visual element of dark prophecy in a country at the crossroads of its history." 'Beneath the surface' - an exhibition of photographs by Steve Bloom of So...

Steve Bloom "Man at home, Clanwilliam, 1975. Clanwilliam is a small town, 250km northwest of Cape Town. Doom, a popular insecticide, on the ledge, adds a visual element of dark prophecy in a country at the crossroads of its history." 'Beneath the surface' - an exhibition of photographs by Steve Bloom of So... "Farm worker's child, Karoo, 1976. Apartheid was designed to extract the maximum labour at the cheapest price from workers, who received the barest subsistence wage. Farm workers' homes had almost no furniture, and the children suffered poor education or none at all. Extreme abuse of workers by t... "Grand Parade, Cape Town, 1976. Open air markets were held in Cape Town’s Grand Parade. When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, he was driven straight to the City Hall from where he addressed a crowd of 50,000 assembled on the Grand Parade. " 'Beneath the surface' - an exhibition ... "Green Point, Cape Town 1977. Green Point is a residential suburb close to the city centre. The effect of apartheid was to engender feelings of indifference across the colour line." 'Beneath the surface' - an exhibition of photographs by Steve Bloom of South Africa in the seventies Photography b... "Policeman chasing man, Cape Town 1976. A policeman jumps out of his car and chases a black man picked at random on the streets of Cape Town. Unrest spread to the cities after black schoolchildren protested at a new ruling which stipulated that they had to have their lessons in Afrikaans, seen as... "Cape Town, 1976" 'Beneath the surface' - an exhibition of photographs by Steve Bloom of South Africa in the seventies Photography by Steve Bloom Presented by the London Festival of Photography © Steve Bloom/stevebloomphoto.com "Cape Town, 1976. An Idi Amin lookalike takes part in a parade, covered with fake medals. Idi Amin, brutal Ugandan dictator at the time, was often cited by South Africans as a justification for white rule." 'Beneath the surface' - an exhibition of photographs by Steve Bloom of South Africa in th... "Woman at home, Western Cape, 1976" 'Beneath the surface' - an exhibition of photographs by Steve Bloom of South Africa in the seventies Photography by Steve Bloom Presented by the London Festival of Photography © Steve Bloom/stevebloomphoto.com "Sea Point, Cape Town, 1976. People watching a parade from a designated dog toilet. " 'Beneath the surface' - an exhibition of photographs by Steve Bloom of South Africa in the seventies Photography by Steve Bloom Presented by the London Festival of Photography © Steve Bloom/stevebloomphoto.com "Bergie, Cape Town 1976. Homeless people, often addicted to methylated spirits, were known as ‘bergies’, derived from the Afrikaans word ‘mountain’, because they originally found shelter wherever they could on the slopes of Table Mountain." 'Beneath the surface' - an exhibition of photographs by...