©Joao Silva for the New York Times
The front page of the New York Times today featured the story “A Bus System Reopens Rifts in South Africa” written by Celia W. Dugger with photographs by Joao Silva. It made me think of David Goldblatt’s black and white photographs from the 1980′s of the bus routes between KwaNdebele and Pretoria. I revisited Goldblatt’s work in the book The Transported of KwaNdebele published by Aperture and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Powerful work and a great compliment for Joao Silva’s more recent color photographs.
©David Goldblatt