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Ernest Cole’s photographs of 1960s South Africa during apartheid

Ernest Cole was born in 1940, in Eersterust, a township near Pretoria, and went on to become South Africa’s first black freelance photographer and one of the great chroniclers of the black experience during apartheid. Cole risked his life to document subjects and injustices that he knew would never be published while apartheid still raged.

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