Soweto by Jodi Bieber

Soweto – Jodi Bieber (Jacana 2010)
Soweto – Jodi Bieber (Jacana 2010) Bieber's Soweto is mostly a happy place, where its residents celebrate life, despite the faces in her photographs being mostly unsmiling. She spent three months and travelled 7 000 kilometres in the township, documenting Sowetans, and came away with enjoyable impressions of her time spent there, she says. Her photographs capture Sowetans in everyday situations – at a wedding, in church, at a festival, at home . . . all enjoying the township. A map at the back of the book indicates where she took the 154 photographs for the book.

Soweto – Jodi Bieber (Jacana 2010)

Soweto – Jodi Bieber (Jacana 2010)

Bieber's Soweto is mostly a happy place, where its residents celebrate life, despite the faces in her photographs being mostly unsmiling. She spent three months and travelled 7 000 kilometres in the township, documenting Sowetans, and came away with enjoyable impressions of her time spent there, she says. Her photographs capture Sowetans in everyday situations – at a wedding, in church, at a festival, at home . . . all enjoying the township. A map at the back of the book indicates where she took the 154 photographs for the book.