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A Drain On Our Dignity - An Insider's Perspective (Paperback)

Masixole Feni

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As a photojournalist, Feni spends a lot of time photographing service delivery strikes and protest in the townships. Often the images that make it into the newspapers are only of the looting and burnings. Renting a backyard room in an informal settlement, Feni was troubled by this kind of portrayal of the lack of service delivery and the life of the marginalised.

As he says, “I live at the back of an RDP house in Mfuleni on the Cape Flats. I experience issues like poor sanitation, access to clean water and the flooding first hand”. Photographing the lack of sanitation was not pleasant for him, but he did not want a photographer from outside the community telling their stories while he watched on. “That too would be a Drain on Our Dignity and that’s what inspired this project”.

A Drain On Our Dignity echoes the ground-breaking images produced by Ernest Cole in the early 1960s, showing black life under apartheid. It is a sensitive and honest look at what lack of services is, what it does to a community and what it does to a people.

Without the screaming, fighting or burning – these captivating images compel the reader to look at what is happening in the Cape Town townships.

General

Imprint: Jacana Media
Country of origin: South Africa
Release date: September 2017
Authors: Masixole Feni
Dimensions: 241 x 257 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 978-1-4314-2552-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > From 1900 > Reportage & collected journalism
Books > Local Author Showcase > Politics
LSN: 1-4314-2552-4
Barcode: 9781431425525

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