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Tributes paid to top South African photographer

SA Photographer Hailed Santu Mofokeng took part in the Venice Biennale international art exhibition in 2012

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 Source: bbc.com

Tributes are being paid to one of South Africa's most-celebrated photographers, Santu Mofokeng, following his death at the age of 64.

The Soweto-born Mofokeng started his career as a street photographer in his teens, before becoming one of the greatest chroniclers of the struggle against the racist system of apartheid.

In 1985, Mofokeng co-founded Afrapix, an agency which defied the apartheid regime's restrictive media laws and supplied mainly black newspapers with photographs rarely published in the white-dominated media.

Source: bbc.com