Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Award-winning documentary digs deep into the tragic life and times of groundbreaking South African photographer Ernest Cole

16 March 2025 - 00:00

In 1967 South African photographer Ernest Cole, who'd fled his homeland for exile in New York the previous year, published House of Bondage, his searing, groundbreaking photographic record of the reality of daily life for black people under the brutality of the apartheid regime. ..

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