Secunda through the lens: Coal mining leaves social & environmental degradation

The view from a hotel window in Secunda one night set photographer Daylin Paul on a quest that changed his view of the world, writes Tymon Smith

06 October 2019 - 00:03 By Tymon Smith

Daylin Paul, winner of the Ernest Cole Award for Photography, grew up in working-class Durban. It was there that he remembers his late father giving him his first camera for his ninth or 10th birthday — a pink compact — with strict instructions not to open the back and expose the film...

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