The Relaunch of House of Bondage by Aperture signals the return of Ernest Cole’s Legacy and missing negatives

“The impact of the brutality is expressed through their frozen silence, as it is also, the loudest rejection of their state of affairs.”

“Most of the photographs in House of Bondage whisper this message. While Cole seems invisible in the book, as one becomes engrossed by the photographs, one sees how the eyes, faces, postures, and beings who are the subject of these moments conspire with this freedom fighter, soldier of the people.”

Mongane Wally Serote