Photographer Ernest Cole’s ground-breaking work that exposed the inhumanity and injustice of South African apartheid to the world is brought to life by documentary maker Raoul Peck.
Published in 1967 when Cole was only in his 20s, his book House of Bondage is filled with images of the acutely painful photographs Cole risked his own life to take: psychological portraits of existence within a brutal caste system, its violence and indignity. Exiled to Europe and America, he spent the rest of his life disillusioned and enraged by the silence of the West in the face of the apartheid regime. Of a piece with Peck’s body of work (including I Am Not Your Negro), this also functions as detective thriller that reassesses Cole’s life and his contribution to our understanding of race.
