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Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>Ernest Cole is famous for photographing the everyday realities of South Africa\u2019s racist apartheid system. His 1967 book House of Bondage ensured his damning critique of the white minority regime was seen by the world. But its publication sent him into exile and was banned at home.<\/b><\/p>\n

The startling discovery of a vast archive of his work in a Swedish bank vault in 2017 has returned him to public view.<\/p>\n

House of Bondage was republished in 2023 and then, in 2024, celebrated Haitian film-maker Raoul Peck made Ernest Cole: Lost and Found.<\/p>\n

It would win the documentary prize at the Cannes Film Festival and show around the world, restoring the legacy of a photographer who died penniless in New York in 1990 at the age of 49.As a researcher of South African photography under apartheid, I was intrigued by how the film would convey this complex life story.<\/p>\n

It draws extensively on Cole\u2019s images, made in South Africa, Europe and the US. It\u2019s a beautiful, poetic interpretation of how his images mirrored his own experiences of oppression, displacement and the loneliness of exile.<\/p>\n

House of Bondage<\/p>\n

Cole was just 10 when the state introduced the Group Areas Act and entrenched racial segregation. He was 22 when his childhood neighbourhood of Eersterust was razed to the ground. His family was among the thousands forcibly removed to a new township.<\/p>\n

In his second year of high school, he elected to drop out. The state had introduced Bantu Education, designed to ensure Black children learned only enough for a life of servitude.<\/p>\n

Cole began to study by correspondence, taking a course with the New York Institute for Photography. By 18, he\u2019d landed a position as a darkroom assistant at Drum magazine, working alongside German photographer Ju\u0308rgen Schadeberg.In 1959, Cole saw a copy of French street photography pioneer Henri Cartier-Bresson\u2019s The People of Moscow, and decided he would create a similar book to convey what it meant to live under apartheid.<\/p>\n

He spent six years taking the photographs that would become House of Bondage, a book that exposed the apartheid state.<\/p>\n

Determined to publish his images, he fled to the US in 1966, where his book appeared a year later. Acclaimed internationally, it was banned for 22 years in South Africa. Cole was prohibited from returning home and spent the next 20 years stateless.<\/p>\n

He hoped to find freedom in America. Instead he felt pigeonholed as a Black photographer, dismayed at only ever being commissioned to document suffering.<\/p>\n

He made hundreds of photographs of people in Harlem, often drawn to scenes that were impossible in South Africa. Mixed-race couples holding hands in public, young people of different races hanging out, neon signs offering \u201cSex, sex, sex\u201d rather than the \u201cWhites only\u201d signs of segregation he documented at home.Commissioned to take photos in the Deep South, he found the same suffering and racism he\u2019d thought particular to South Africa.<\/p>\n

In a letter to the Norwegian government requesting an emergency travel certificate to leave the US, he wrote:<\/p>\n

Exposing the truth at whatever cost is one thing. But having to live a lifetime of being a chronicler of misery and injustice and callousness is another.<\/p>\n

A life in fragments<\/p>\n

For me, the most poignant moment of the film is the footage of Cole speaking in his own voice in a 1969 documentary. A slight man with a sorrowful gaze, he\u2019s seated at a table with prints of his photos:<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been banned in absentia, but that doesn\u2019t matter because it (his book) will stand in the future. Because I\u2019m sure South Africa will be free.<\/p>\n

His youthful conviction is undercut by the presence, in his voice, of the weight of all he\u2019s experienced. Correspondence shows Cole\u2019s book was sent to government officials in the US and Europe, and to the United Nations, but it would take decades of resistance before apartheid fell.Despite his fame, and the support of leading international photographers, writers and editors, Cole\u2019s determination was ground down by the racism he encountered everywhere he went. Although he received grants to continue his work, he descended into poverty and depression.<\/p>\n

By the mid-1980s he stopped taking photos \u2013 his cameras were lost, stolen, or sold, and he learned that his belongings, including negatives and prints that he\u2019d left in a hotel storage room in New York, had been discarded. Cole was destitute and ill.<\/p>\n

Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he watched Nelson Mandela\u2019s release from prison in 1990 from his hospital bed. Cole died in New York that same year. All his negatives and the work he\u2019d made during his life in exile were thought to be lost.Finding Ernest Cole<\/p>\n

Peck\u2019s meditative film draws on Cole\u2019s notebooks and letters, along with research interviews, in a rather bold attempt to have him \u201ctell his own story\u201d. It\u2019s a story driven by both curiosity and heartbreak, narrated by actor LaKeith Stanfield, whose rather jarring American accent gives voice to a South African experience.<\/p>\n

Peck\u2019s script draws on interviews and research conducted by curator and researcher Gunilla Knape, who was associated with the Hasselblad Foundation, an organisation linked to the ongoing controversy over ownership of Cole\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Cole\u2019s nephew, Leslie Matlaisane, received an email requesting that he travel to Sweden to discuss the return of items belonging to his uncle, discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm.<\/p>\n

The film includes footage of Matlaisane\u2019s journey to Sweden and the bizarre scene that unfolds as Cole\u2019s archive is returned without any explanation about how it came to be either lost or found, or who\u2019d placed it there.<\/p>\n

The boxes included 60,000 negatives, and Cole\u2019s notebooks and research materials for House of Bondage. An incredible trove of history has resurfaced, but as Peck\u2019s film shows, Cole himself was irrecoverably lost in exile.<\/p>\n

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