Tales from Jozi- photographs by Jurgen Schadeberg

Tales from Jozi - photographs by Jurgen Schadeberg (Protea, 2007)
Sharing a room with two others, playing chess in Joubert Park, playing golf in Kensington, children "playing" on a dirty stairway, elegant book launches at the Constitutional Court, strip clubs, crumpled beds, glitzy night clubs, flashy cars at an auto show . . . just some of the images Schadeberg captures in this city of extremes. The book is the result of an approach to Schadeberg by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, asking him to record the living conditions of inner city dwellers as evidence to defend the tenants against eviction. The photographs are interspersed with well-written, insightful articles. The many unsmiling faces looking out from the photographs attest to the hard lives of many Joburgers.

Tales from Jozi - photographs by Jurgen Schadeberg (Protea, 2007)

Sharing a room with two others, playing chess in Joubert Park, playing golf in Kensington, children "playing" on a dirty stairway, elegant book launches at the Constitutional Court, strip clubs, crumpled beds, glitzy night clubs, flashy cars at an auto show . . . just some of the images Schadeberg captures in this city of extremes. The book is the result of an approach to Schadeberg by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, asking him to record the living conditions of inner city dwellers as evidence to defend the tenants against eviction. The photographs are interspersed with well-written, insightful articles. The many unsmiling faces looking out from the photographs attest to the hard lives of many Joburgers.