Description
To coincide with the BBC Documentary; Rankin: Pictures of Africa, Rankin travelled to Johannesburg, South Africa, to explore the country’s photographic traditions. There, he met and was inspired by some of South Africa’s greatest living photographers. These included Joao Silva and Greg Marinovich, who gained renown for their unfl inching reportage of South Africa’s civil unrest between 1990-94. Rankin’s photographs of his journey capture the colour and vitality of South Africa as it proudly steps into the new decade.
Rankin’s photograph from his time in Johannesburg, were then published in a book, Rankinjozi. The traditions, characters, fashions and faces all combine to illustrate South Africa in 2010, a nation where wealth and poverty still overlap, and Western fashion and traditional dress collide to create a vivid tapestry. On the eve of hosting the 2010 World Cup, Rankin’s portrait of Jozi, South Africa captures a nation steeped in its fractious history, yet poised and hopeful on the brink of what feels like a new era. Also features photographs of David Goldblat, whose landscape and social documentary imagery critically explores and exposes the strata of South African society and Lolo Veleko, a fashion photographer who shuns the studio for the street.