About the Book

Between the cracks covers the remarkable photographic journey of Paul Weinberg across southern African cultural, social, and environmental landscapes from the 1970s to the contemporary. Weinberg’s career began after having been conscripted into the apartheid regime’s army. His camera became a weapon, ‘taking sides’ against the very regime which he had been forced to serve. But Between the cracks covers far more than just the ‘witnessing’ of political protest. As Jacob Dlamini suggests in his essay on Weinberg, many of the images consummately convey the seemingly paradoxical ‘ordinari-ness’ or ‘banality’ of apartheid life. Between the cracks traverses a range of Weinberg’s photographic interests from the political to the social to the personal. It includes his iconic anti-apartheid photography, his sociological work with the San, his transcutural observations, his interests in landscape, and his celebrated documentary work for the Independent Electoral Commission in 1994. With essays by Prof. Tamar Garb and Prof Jacob Dlamini

About Paul Weinberg

Paul Wienberg is a photographer, curator, filmmaker, writer, educationist and archivist. He began his career in the early 1980s by working for South African NGOs and photographing current events for news agencies and for-eign newspapers. He was a founder member of Afrapix and South, the collective photo agencies that gained local and international recognition for their uncompromising role in documenting apartheid and popular resistance to it. From 1990 onwards, he increasingly concentrated on feature and in-depth project-based photography. He has produced twenty-one books as a photographer and author in his own right and been published in many anthologies and group projects. Weinberg has exhibited widely, locally and internationally. He taught photography at the Centre of Documentary Studies at Duke University in the United States and holds a master’s degree from the same university. He lectured in Documentary Arts and Visual Anthropology at UCT and is currently a research associate at the South African Research Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture, University of Johannesburg. Together with David Goldblatt, he founded the Ernest Cole Award for creative photography in South Africa. He has worked extensively in the field of photographic archives and presently is the curator for the Photography Legacy Project.