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[The Guardian] Portraits from apartheid-era South Africa - in pictures

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Portraits from apartheid-era South Africa - in pictures

The ZJS Ndimande photo studio was founded in Greytown, in what is now KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, in 1940. Many of the portraits taken at the studio between 1964-1983 show people posing against a dark curtain backdrop, often holding simple props. An archive of photographs during the period offers a different perspective on township life during apartheid and forms part of Bonhams’ modern and contemporary African art sale on Wednesday 18 March

Photo archive of life in apartheid-era South Africa to be auctioned

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