テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「📷 Ernest Cole is considered one of the most significant documentary photographers in the history of photography. During his life he was known for his book: House of Bondage – published in 1967 – from which the above images are taken. 📷 Each of Cole's images captures an element of day-to-day life under the Apartheid regime in South Africa. There is a particular focus on the Black community: from the long commutes and overcrowding of trains; to the harsh conditions in gold mines; to understaffed and underfunded hospitals; and the daily realities of pass raids. In some works, Cole has photographed signs that depict the rules that separated different strands of society under Apartheid. Other images are more playful, depicting children cooling off with a water sprinkler or friendships between Black and white South Africans. As well as providing a record of the reality for Black people living under Apartheid, Cole’s photographs bear witness to his own experience of living and working under continued state oppression. In an attempt to gain more freedom, Cole managed to have his racial classification changed from ‘Black’ to ‘Coloured’, tricking the Race Classification Board. This meant that he did not need to carry a pass signed by a white employer, allowing him to travel more freely. Many of his photographs were taken under risk of arrest, whilst others were taken covertly, with Cole smuggling his camera into areas where photography was banned, such as hospitals and mines. Historian Gunilla Knape noted: 'the essential humanity of Cole’s artistic vision is given through the relation that the photographer has with his subject matter; this is photography executed in the midst of, from the inside; it is felt as powerfully as it is seen.'」9月25日 0時11分