Photography and the Future in Jansje Wissema’s Images of District Six

What is it about?

This paper focuses on a series of photographs of District Six, a neighbourhood of Cape Town that was destroyed by the apartheid state. It argues for the importance of engaging with these photographs in the present and for the future.

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Why is it important?

This paper is important in the light of the process of land restitution in South Africa, ongoing inequality in the aftermath of apartheid and present day forced removals in the city of Cape Town.