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The Inner City, is an evocative collection of black and white photographs reflecting an inner landscape that is both stark and gentle. For three years Williams spent almost every weekend taking photographs of Gauteng city life, each of them embracing a personal mood rather than a documentary agenda. Williams quotes the lines: ‘Between the idea and the reality, Between the motion and the act, Falls the shadow’ from TS Eliot’s poem The Hollow Men, when talking about The Inner City. The photographs show people as they are, as they pretend to be, hiding behind masks or caught in a naked, moment.

Most, if not all, big cities can be isolating, however Johannesburg is an interesting case because of its complex past, unsettled future and jarring present. The apartheid era set up divisions which are a long way from being broken down. It would seem that the majority of people would like the country to work, but distrust is not dusted off easily. The hope is that future generations that are educated together may have more of a chance of reacting normally towards each other.

Author: Graeme Williams, English, Multimedia.

Specifications: 240x240mm, 52 pp, B&w photographs
, ISBN: 978 0869 75334 .

Price (ZA) R180.00

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