15 artworks by Kevin C Lee (Selection)
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In the early 1980s I visited my grandmother, aunts and cousins in South Africa. I was a keen amateur[...]
In the early 1980s I visited my grandmother, aunts and cousins in South Africa. I was a keen amateur photographer at the time and took my camera with me. I visited Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. Although this was the time of apartheid, when white people ruled and everyone else had a difficult life, I found that, everywhere I went, black South Africans greeted me with smiles and friendliness. No one ever objected to me taking their photo. I was genuinely moved by their lack of hostility, considering the oppression they would all have experienced in their everyday lives. I look at these images and can still remember how amazed and inspired I was by the openness and humility of the people in the photos.
This was the time before digital and I was using a Pentax SLR camera. The negatives have long since been lost, and what you see are digital copies of original photos. Unfortunately, not the best of reproductions. But I treasure them and wanted to share them.
This was the time before digital and I was using a Pentax SLR camera. The negatives have long since been lost, and what you see are digital copies of original photos. Unfortunately, not the best of reproductions. But I treasure them and wanted to share them.
"Malay Cape Carnival 1"
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"Two boys on a Carnival float"
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"Maids"
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"Butchery workers on lunch-time break"
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"Boy and Girl"
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"School boys, parent and onlookers"
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"Mother and Child"
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"Street newspaper seller"
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"Dignity and Pride"
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"Muizenberg beach scene"
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"Zulu woman singing"
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"Horse and cart coal delivery"
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"Smartly attired Malay lad"
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"White South Africans relaxing at Muizenberg beach"
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"Young man reading"
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