PLP Newsletter #3 (May/June 2023)

PLP Newsletter #3 (May/June 2023)

The PLP newsletter is a quarterly online publication from the Photography Legacy Project. The PLP is a a digital platform for African photography and archives. Our newsletter is a forum to share our news and projects as well as encourage ideas and thoughts about the African photography and archives.

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House of Bondage by Ernest Cole

New unseen, untitled images from the chapter ‘Black Ingenuity’.

New unseen, untitled images from the chapter ‘Black Ingenuity’ from 'House of Bondage'.
(Photograph: Ernest Cole, 1940-1990)

Ernest Cole: South Africa’s most famous photobook has been republished after 55 years

Photographer Ernest Cole was born in 1940 in the Pretoria township of Eersterust, just before apartheid was formally introduced in South Africa in 1948. He was 20 when thousands of…

LAUNCH VIDEO – The Re-issue and Homecoming of Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage

House of Bondage by Ernest Cole, a book that became a seminal reference point in exposing black life under apartheid was first published in 1967 and was immediately banned along…

11th May 2023

The Sounds of Drum

The PLP is working with the Bailey History Archive (BAHA) to make accessible the ‘best of’ Drum magazine and others in the […]

11th May 2023

UDF Launch 40 years ago – Photos by Paul Weinberg

The United Democratic Front (UDF) a popular mass democratic and civil movement was launched in Mitchell’s […]

11th May 2023

Sudan Family Albums

“The project visits a photo collection of important families in Sudan’s history. Families have played an important part in keeping Sudan’s history alive since […]

11th May 2023

Ala Kheir’s return to Darfur

I was born in Neyal, a big city in South Darfur. My mother was from the city and my father grew up in one of the villages not far from…

11th May 2023

Tender Photo: the newsletter that’s creating a new conversation about African photography

Nigeria’s Emmanuel Iduma is many things: writer, editor, publisher, critic and photographer. In 2022 he combined these skills to introduce a newsletter, Tender Photo, sent to subscribers twice a week.…

20th Nov 2022

The Many Worlds of Lindeka Qampi

The first photograph Lindeka Qampi took as a member of the street photographer collective, Iliso Lebantu […]

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