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David Goldblatt — Selected Images from The Transported of KwaNdebele
David Goldblatt

Selected Images from The Transported of KwaNdebele

David Goldblatt's *The Transported of KwaNdebele* is a series of eight gelatin silver prints documenting the grueling daily commute endured by Black South African workers forced to travel hours each way between the apartheid-era homeland of KwaNdebele and Pretoria during the 1980s. Captured in stark, intimate black-and-white photography, the images reveal passengers sleeping, waiting, and exhausted aboard overcrowded buses in the predawn darkness, bearing witness to the profound human cost of apartheid's forced removals and labor policies. Goldblatt's unflinching yet empathetic lens transforms these ordinary moments of displacement into a powerful indictment of systemic oppression and the resilience of those subjected to it.

Medium
Eight gelatin silver prints.

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October 1, 2013

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David Goldblatt, Selected Images from The Transported of KwaNdebele

David Goldblatt's *The Transported of KwaNdebele* is a series of eight gelatin silver prints documenting the grueling daily commute endured by Black South African workers forced to travel hours each way between the apartheid-era homeland of KwaNdebele and Pretoria during the 1980s. Captured in stark, intimate black-and-white photography, the images reveal passengers sleeping, waiting, and exhausted aboard overcrowded buses in the predawn darkness, bearing witness to the profound human cost of apartheid's forced removals and labor policies. Goldblatt's unflinching yet empathetic lens transforms these ordinary moments of displacement into a powerful indictment of systemic oppression and the resilience of those subjected to it.

Medium
Eight gelatin silver prints.
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

20th Century, Mid-Career Artist, Figurative Photography, Male Artist, Portrait Series, Documentary Photography, Black and White Photography, Gelatin Silver Print, Political Subject Matter, Apartheid Era, South African Photographer, Social Commentary, Series Format, Photojournalism, Social Realism

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