VOICES FROM THE LAND

164pp., 4to., illus., hardback, d.w., Reprint, Pretoria, (2005) 2007

A series of photographs of rural farm workers in South Africa. 

Photographer Jürgen Schadeberg was born in Berlin in 1931. In 1950 he emigrated to South Africa and became chief photographer, picture editor and art director at Drum magazine. In 1964 he left South Africa and worked in London, the USA and Europe before returning to South Africa in 1985. He moved to Spain in 2007, where he died in 2020.

His books include Soweto Today, The San of the Kalahari, The Fifties People of South Africa, Voices from Robben Island, Softown Blues and The Way I see It, a memoir.