Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe: South Africa, 1977/78

Superb photographs documenting the people, places and activist movements in apartheid-era South Africa

Published with The Gordon Parks Foundation.

American photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe's understanding of race and class was shaped by Chicago's systemic discriminatory practices; as she later reflected, the city had, "in its own way, a form of apartheid." After encountering Ernest Cole's photographs and training with mentors such as Gordon Parks and Garry Winogrand in the early 1970s, M...