The issue of belonging, of belonging to a country or a people, or a community and even a family is vexing. The issue is belaboured by claims about race, ethnicity, religion, language and (even) skin tone. In South Africa we most certainly have reduced belonging to skin tone, and race. Belonging has a lot to…
Month: November 2025
The Tourist Gaze: Exotic and Fetished Zulus Framed as Scenery
To photograph is in some way to appropriate the object being photo-graphed. It is a power/knowledge relationship. To have visual knowledge of an object is in part to have power, even if only momentarily, over it. – John Urry in The Tourist Gaze. I picked up a book, what seemed like a bog-standard picture book,…