Description
Lindokuhle Sobekwabegan this project after finding a family portrait with his sister Ziyandas face cut out. He describes her as a secretive, rebellious, and rough presence, and recalls the dark day when she chased him and he was hit by a car: she disappeared hours later and returned only a decade later, ill. By this time Sobekwa had become a photographer and realized the family had no picture of her: One day I saw this beautiful light coming in through the window shining on her face. I lifted up the camera to catch the moment and she shot me an evil look and said: Stop! If you take that picture Im going to kill you! So I lowered my camera. I still wish I had taken the shot. Ziyanda died soon after.
Employing a scrapbook aesthetic with handwritten notes, I carryHer photo with Meis a means for Sobekwa to engage both with the memory of his sister and the wider implications of such disappearances a troubling part of South Africas history. The book complements his wider work on fragmentation, poverty, and the long-reaching ramifications of apartheid and colonialism across all levels of South African society.
Includes a long-form essay by writer and scholarNeelika Jayawardane.
80 pages, 18 x 22cm, spiral-bound hardcover, MACK (London).
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