Obituary: Juhan Kuus, loner whose lens captured a violent era

09 August 2015 - 02:00
By Chris Barron

Juhan Kuus, who has died in Cape Town at the age of 62, was one of the hardest of the hardcore frontline news photographers covering the violence in South African townships in the '80s and early '90s. He was certainly the most cynical and uncompromising. He was the ultimate loner, partly because nobody with a normal survival instinct wanted anything to do with him.

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