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 Masters in Documentary Arts at UCT. He currently works as an independent curator, archivist and photographer. His photographic books include Traces and Tracks, Then and Now, Moving Spirit and Travelling Light.