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Rodger Bosch

Rodger Bosch has been working in the photographic field for 30 years, capturing arresting images of news and cultural events. Over the years, he has photographed the joy and pain of South Africa emerging from apartheid. First, the early democracy with its most celebrated President, African leader and world statesman Nelson Mandela. Then, Presidents Thabo Mbeki, Kgalema Motlanthe, and the rearrangemenr of the political landscape with President Jacob Zuma.

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Mike Hutchings
Born: 1963 in London, United Kingdom

Born in 1963 in London, Mike Hutchings grew up in various countries around Africa, before finishing basic schooling in South Africa in 1980. His earliest memory of photography is a Kodak instamatic camera that his sister had when he was about 5 years old. He borrowed it and went to a game park, where he shot some "terrible" pictures of the animals and his friends.

This Day in History: 23 January 2011
On 23 January 2011, John James Issel also known as Johnny died at the age of 64, after he had suffered renal failure at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town . Issel was born on 14 August 1946 in the wine growing area in Worcester and worked in a farm at a young age, cleaning grapes for the export market. During his matric, he became actively involved in the East Rand anti apartheid Labour party, contesting for the Coloured Representative Council. In addition, Issel was the founder of United Democratic Front (UDF) and a member of Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Associations (MKMVA). He worked closely with trade union movements and student organizations. Issel made an immense contribution in the liberation struggle of South Africa to fight against apartheid. He is one of those who have sacrificed a lot for the country. He left behind six children five grandchildren.

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Lloyd Spencer
Born: 1955

Lloyd Spencer was born in South Africa in 1955. As a teenager, he had developed and printed his own medium format photos using his father's antique cameras as well as his dad’s kitchen (or bathroom) darkroom. Lloyd's serious pursuit of street and documentary photography began at the beginning of the 1980s during the years in which he was a post-graduate in Germany studying Walter Benjamin, who inspired John Berger’s extraordinary TV-series Ways of Seeing. During this time Spencer had the privilege of working on Another Way of Telling with Jean Mohr and John Berger.

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Brett Eloff

Brett Eloff is an independently employed professional photographer, residing and working principally in Johannesburg, South Africa.

He began his career in the early nineties, covering South Africa’s transition to democracy and the accompanying violence, which engulfed the townships around Johannesburg. Since then Brett has been assigned by numerous publications and organisations, both locally and abroad, with a focus mostly on actuality and portraiture.

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The Tsitsikamma National Park is situated at the heart of the picturesque tourist Region known as: 'the Garden Route'. This region is found in the Southern Cape of South Africa. The Park incorporates 80 km of rocky coastline with spectacular sea and landscapes, a remote mountainous region with secluded valleys covered in mountain Fynbos and temperate high forests with deep river gorges leading down to the sea.

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Sandi Smit
Born: 1962
Born in 1962, Sandy Smit was an ECC Media Committee member, Jodac member and Afrapix photographer. On the 15th of June, under the emergency regulations, Smit was detained and released June 29 1986.

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Zubeida Vallie
Born: 1963 in Cape Town

Zubeida Vallie was born in 1963 in Newlands, Cape Town from which she and her family were forcibly removed under the Group Areas Act.

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John Liebenberg
Born: 1958 in Johannesburg
Died: 15 February 2020 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

John Liebenberg was born in 1958, in Johannesburg where he also currently works and lives.

He was introduced to Namibia in 1976 when together with his fellow conscripts he was sent to Ondangwa Air-force base near the border with Angola. He later returned to Namibia and in 1985 was appointed photographer for a new weekly, ‘The Namibian’. Following independence, he and his family moved to Johannesburg, from where he covered the Angolan civil war as freelancer for Reuters. He later joined Media 24 magazines, mostly working for Drum.