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The Cruelty of Deliberate Forgetting

Posted on 1 October 202019 October 2020 by ilagardien

I am posting this edited version of a talk I gave, three years after it was published in the Mail & Guardian. It was not a paid assignment. I am placing it here as a type of community service/outreach/ The 1980s — represented in the exhibition Between States of Emergency: Photographers in Action 1985-1990 — were a…

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Birdie Courageous

Posted on 12 August 202021 August 2020 by ilagardien

A winter’s day in Verona, Italy. The part of this sequence that I like is the daring of the bird, and that I made the pictures with an iPhone 5.

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Old Photographs: Nothing or Legs

Posted on 12 August 202012 August 2020 by ilagardien

Among the old photographs that I have on storage drives, especially those old water damaged negs I scanned, I sometimes find gems, like the one below. To make this picture I risked life and limb. I stood in the middle of Market Street, Johannesburg, on one of the white lines, in traffic, to get this…

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Jacob Morake’s Last Fight

Posted on 8 August 20208 August 2020 by ilagardien

8 August 2020. I first posted these pictures and text on my website more than a decade ago. (I think in 2009). I was wonderfully surprised to find it that I had a backup on an old storage drive. Here, again, it is. Thanks to Perfect Hlongwane for reminding me about Jacob Morake, which forced…

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Anti-G8 and Anti-War Graffiti in Geneva 2003

Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003

Bastakiya, Dubai 2012

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