EARTH SONGS

106pp., colour illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2021

A collection of photographs documenting sacred sites around South Africa.

"This remarkable book is a catalog of ritual practices in place, yet it imagines a religiosity not fettered by territory or culture. Weinberg is a sage among visual storytellers. By gently following the paths of people in prayer, he gives testimony to the value of land beyond property and production, and to the spiritual power of photography itself." Staffan Löfving, Karlstad University, Sweden

Photographer Paul Weinberg was a founder member of Afrapix and South, the collective photo agencies that documented apartheid and popular resistance to it. He has taught photography at the Centre of Documentary Studies at Duke University and lectured in Documentary Arts and Visual Anthropology at UCT. He is currently a research associate at the South African Research Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture at the University of Johannesburg. Together with David Goldblatt he founded the Ernest Cole Award for creative photography in South Africa, and is currently curator of the Photography Legacy Project His photographic books include Earth Songs, Traces and Tracks, Then and Now and Moving Spirit and Travelling Light.