Between the Cracks: A Photojournalism Retrospective with Paul Weinberg

An event featuring South African photojournalist, Paul Weinberg, on his upcoming retrospective called "Between the Cracks." He will tell the story of his journey and journeys that took him to the 'frontline,' and how the 'frontline' became a metaphor for evolving projects way beyond photojournalism.

Lunch will be available for attendees.

Zoom option:register at https://duke.is/between

"Between the cracks, life continues with its pain and joy. During the "dark days", apartheid shadowed me on all these journeys. It was always there consciously or not. It was in the lines of people's faces or in the fascist bravado of military parades and numerous events echoed their presence. But it was the people I was looking at - watching how they reflected themselves and how I absorbed their reflections, how they danced with reality, how they made light in a dark space, how they embraced each other at great risk." -Travelling Light

Bio:
Paul Weinberg is a South African-born photographer, filmmaker, writer, curator, educationist and archivist. He began his career in the late 1970's by working for South African NGOs, and photographing current events for news agencies and foreign countries.

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 is increasingly concentrated on feature rather than news photography. His images have been widely exhibited and published, both locally and abroad. He also initiated several major photographic projects, notably Then and Now, a collection of photographers from the collective photographic movement of the 1980s, Umhlaba, a project on land and The Other Camera about vernacular photography in South Africa.

In 1993 Weinberg won the Mother Jones International Documentary Award for his portrayal of the fisherfolk of Kosi Bay, on South Africa's north coast. He has taught photography at the Centre of Documentary Studies at Duke University, and Masters in Documentary Arts at UCT. He currently works as an independent curator, archivist and photographer.