The people of Soweto by David Goldblatt - in pictures
In the early 1970s, the acclaimed South African photographer documented the residents of the township. These portraits form part of Goldblatt’s first major solo exhibition in London since 1986, now showing at the Goodman Gallery.
Apartheid South Africa from both sides – in pictures
David Goldblatt was a white South African photographer. Ernest Cole was one of the country’s first black photojournalists. Each had access to places the other was denied – and together their work captures a divided land
'Colour was too sweet for apartheid': the austere genius of David Goldblatt
The South African photographer, who died this week, caught apartheid’s grotesqueness without ever letting anger take over. His portrait of a place and a time is without equal in modern photography
My best summer photograph: sand, scorpions and sausage sarnies
Phallic corn, the world’s greatest lay-by, an ostrich on the rampage and Iggy Pop in the pit … top photographers, including Wolfgang Tillmans and Chloe Dewe Mathews, pick their great summer shots
Jim Goldberg's Open See series and David Goldblatt's Johannesburg tale are modern meditations on documentary photography that reject traditional reportage as too cut and dried, writes Sean O'Hagan
Pictures from South African photographer David Goldblatt's solo exhibition TJ at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg: Some things old, some things new and some much the same
David Smith's letter from Africa
Life through a lens: Ernest Cole photographs shed light on apartheid
Exhibition celebrates the work a long-neglected pioneer who captured the beauty and the ugliness of segregated South Africa
David Smith's letter from Africa
Letter from Africa: Two great South African photographers
David Smith compares the fates of two South African photographers, David Goldblatt and Ernest Cole
The outstanding artist in the new Citigroup photography prize show is also the luckiest. How else could he have captured this firefighter taking time out to buy fruit? By Adrian Searle.
