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Title:Photographic portraiture, neighbourhood activism and apartheid's industrial legacy: reflections on the 'Breathing Spaces' exhibition
Authors:Du Toit, MarijkeISNI
Gordon, Jenny
Year:2009
Periodical:Kronos: Journal of Cape History (ISSN 0259-0190)
Issue:35
Pages:175-221
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:photography
social conditions
townships
pollution
exhibitions
External link:http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/kronos/v35n1/v35a08.pdf
Abstract:The exhibition 'Breathing Spaces: Environmental Portraits of Durban's Industrial South' was shown in Durban (South Africa) in 2007 and in Cape Town in 2009. Its aim was to build a portrait of Durban harbour's residential-industrial hinterland - especially the three adjacent neighbourhoods of Wentworth, Merebank and Lamontville - an area that bears the imprint of apartheid-era planning and a longer history of racial segregation. The level of pollution is high in Durban's industrial basin, as is the level of pollution-related ill-health. The photographs included in the exhibition are portraits of individual inhabitants of the area, with personal comments from the people portrayed. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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