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Subdivision of an apartment living room: The living space of Nkosiyabo Ndlovu, photographer, and his wife and child, 305 Leopold Heights, Bok and Claim Streets, Hillbrow, Johannesburg. Photograph of Nkosiyabo Ndlovu by Terry Kurgan, Johannesburg, 23 January 2002

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

On the Farm Frenda, near Warden, Free State, 4 May 2002

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

A cairn, possibly a grave, Leeuwenvalley, Moordenaar's Karoo, Western Cape, 24 April 2002

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Three men rest at the side of the track between Bute Asbestos Mine and Heuningvlei in Northern Cape, 18 December 2002

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Silencers for sale and fitting, Esselen and Banket Streets, Hillbrow, Johannesburg, 13 January 2002

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Near Botterkloofpas, Karoo, 2 March 2002

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Braiding hair on Bree Street, Johannesburg, 7 September 2002

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

The mill at Pomfret Asbestos Mine. It was opened in September 1978 and closed in 1986, 20 December 2002

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Highly carcinogenic blue asbestos waste on the Owendale Asbestos Mine tailings dump, near Postmasburg, Northern Cape. The prevailing wind was in the direction of the mine officials' houses at right. 21 December 2002

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Blue asbestos waste on the Owendale Asbestos Mine tailings dump, near Postmasburg, Northern Cape, 21 December 2002

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Children of Pomfret at the entrance to the incline shaft and underground pool of water in which they swim, Pomfret Blue Asbestos Mine, which closed in 1986, North-West Province, 20 December 2002

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

While Fernando Augusto Luta washed his clothes, Augusto Mokinda (13), Ze Jano (12), and Ze Ndala (10), posed for a photograph in water that has risen from underground in an old mineshaft at Pomfret Asbestos Mine. The water probably contained blue asbestos

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)
Printer: Tony Meintjes (South African, born 1956)

A map, drawn by villagers, showing the occurrence of blue asbestos fibers around their homes and in their district, photographed at the Moffat Mission, Kuruman, 21 December 2002

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

A map, drawn by villagers, showing the occurrence of blue asbestos fibers around their homes and in their district, photographed at the Moffat Mission, Kuruman, 21 December 2002

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Freedom Square: Here, in the time of Apartheid, on 26 June 1955, under harassment by the police, some 3,000 people of all races, from all over South Africa, gathered in a Congress of the People and adopted the Freedom Charter, a template for the governance of a nonracial, democratic South Africa. The Charter became the basis of South Africa's democratic constitution. Kliptown, Soweto, Johannesburg, 10 December 2003

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

The Docrats' lavatory was part of this concrete structure that supported the water tank of their house in Fietas. The Docrats were "Asians" and the area in which they had lived since the 1880s had been declared a Group Area for whites by the Apartheid government. So they were moved to Lenasia and their house on the 20th Street Pageview/Fietas was destroyed. However, the front end loaders couldn't bring down this core which stands to this day. Fietas, Johannesburg

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

From Echo Canyon in the Richtersveld, 25 December 2003

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

The ruins of what is thought to be a 15th or 16th century pre-colonial village, Dithakong, North-West Province, 13 June 2003

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

BHJ, Richtersveld, in the time of Aids, Northern Cape, 25 December 2003

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Farmworker's housing and navigation beacon, Groenfontein, near Sutherland, Northern Cape, 17 August 2003

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Overflow at Hytkoras, Namaqualand, 30 December 2003

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Christmas decorations at Port Nolloth, Northern Cape, in the time of AIDS, 28 December 2003

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Mother and child, Vorstershoop, North-West Province, 11 April 2003

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Anna Boois, goat farmer, with her birthday cake and vegetable garden, Kamiesberge, near Garies, Namaqualand, Northern Cape, 20 September 2003

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

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