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Billy Monk worked as a bouncer in the notorious Catacombs club in
the dock area of Cape Town, South Africa during the 1960s. He
originally began taking pictures in the club with the intention of
selling the photographs to the customers - the people he was
photographing. His aim was not to make a social statement, but his
money-making scheme quickly turned into something else as he
increasingly captured the raw energy of the club, its decadence and
tragedy, its humanity and joy. As someone who shared the
experiences of those club-goers, he was trusted by them and was
able to convey their world and their experience with great energy
and honesty. As David Goldblatt has written "These are photographs
by an insider of insiders for insiders. If inhibitions were lowered
by the seemingly vast quantities of brandy and Coke that were
imbibed, trust, nevertheless, is powerfully evident. Not simply in
the raucous tweaking of bared breasts, or the more guarded but
evident 'togetherness' of two bearded men, as well as the open
flouting of peculiarly South African sanctions such as prohibitions
on interracial sex. It is also present in the quiet composure of
many of the portraits. People seemed to welcome and even bask in
Monk's attentions." Monk stopped photographing at the club in 1969.
Ten years later his contact sheets and negatives were discovered
and in 1982 the work was exhibited at the Market Gallery in
Johannesburg. Monk could not make the opening and two weeks later,
en route to seeing the show, he became involved in an argument. A
fight broke out, Monk was fatally shot in the chest and never saw
his exhibition.
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