The road to Cradock 1997
Truth & Lies - this image was taken on the way back from visiting the notorious Post Chalmers, signposted a 'holiday farm' - this diguised the real goings on which included illegal detentions, interrogation, murder at a secret prison on a farm far away from the nearest town, Cradock, and any recourse to proper legal representation. Needless to say the hapless inmates were 'disappeared' and never heard of again - the fate came to light during the TRC hearings. 1996 – 2002: Stories from The Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Cape Town 2000
Truth & Lies 1996 – 2002: Stories from The Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa Tutu was appointed the chair of the TRC in 1996.
Father Lapsley, ANC Chaplain, Cape Town 1997
Lapsley was deported from SA and went to work as an ANC chaplain in Lesotho. In 1990 after the release of Mandela a letter bomb was sent to him. He lost an eye and both hands. Truth & Lies 1996 – 2002: Stories from The Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa
Joyce Mtimkulu holds the hair of her son
Truth & Lies 1996 – 2002: Stories from The Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa
Comforter, Pumlu Ndulula, Jiss Hall, Johannesburg
Truth & Lies 1996 – 2002: Stories from The Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa
Mrs Joyce Sepei whose son Stompie was murdered by the Mandela Fo
Truth & Lies 1996 – 2002: Stories from The Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa
Gideon Johannes Nieuwoudt and member of the witness protection team.
Truth and Lies : 1996 – 2002: Stories from The Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa
Dirk Coetzee
Dirk Coetzee, photographed at his Pretoria home 26 February 1997 Coetzee was the first commander of the special 'counter -insurgency' unit at Vlakplaas, a ‘farm’ outside Pretoria known to the authorities, where death squads operated with impunity.
Charity Kondile holds the framed photo of her murdered son, Msom
Truth & Lies 1996 – 2002: Stories from The Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa Her son, Sizwe Kondile was murdered on the orders of Dirk Coetzee. During the Amnesty Hearings Coetzee admitted to the gruesome killing of her son.
Hennops River, Vlakplaas Farm, outside Pretoria, where police co
Truth & Lies 1996 – 2002: Stories from The Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa
Boshoek exhumation
Truth & Lies 1996 – 2002: Stories from The Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa
Dawie Botha, undertaker, Exhumation, Vlakplaas, outside Pretoria
ruth & Lies 1996 – 2002: Stories from The Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa
Film director Woody Allen for the New York Times Magazine by Jillian Edelstein.
Film director Woody Allen for the New York Times Magazine by Jillian Edelstein.
Sir Hardy Amies, designer, for the Independent Magazine.
Giorgio Armani, designer, Milan,Italy for Amica
Portrait of Quentin Crisp in NYC in a theatre near his apartment for my Affinities project - the perfect English gentleman.
Helena Bonham Carter at the Dorchester Hotel.
John Malkovich photographed for The Sunday Times Magazine
Lost, then found, Image of conservationist, primatologist, UN messenger of peace Jane Goodall at home in Bournemouth.
“I photographed Nelson Mandela in 1997, as part of a commission to document South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” says Jillian. “He was the President at that time and I went to the presidential house. When I first met him, he put out his hand and I had a physical reaction that has never happened with anyone else before or since. I had a smile which felt like it was going to crack my face apart. That’s the only way I can describe it. When I was photographing him, he was so modest, easy and helpful, completely humble and giving. I was given ten minutes. At that time he was going through a difficult personal time and he had recently divorced from Winnie Mandela. What I managed to capture, in an off-guard moment, was some kind of poignancy and sadness.”
Primo Michele Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems.
The rock music band for The Sunday Times Magazine.
The rock music band for The Sunday Times Magazine.
British painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling at her studio.
Horst von Wächter at Schloss Haggenberg, Austria, which he bought with his family inheritance.
‘I must find the good in my father. My father was a good man, a liberal who did his best. Others would have been worse’
Pictures take for the article ‘My father, the good Nazi’ for Financial Times
In my Belsize Park studio Dan Harvey and Heather Ackroyd wear coats made from grass and seeds scattered all over the white studio floor...
This picture belongs to my ongoing series ‘Affinities’.
'Jonathan built up my confidence at a time I felt everything I was doing was wrong. You spend all day in front of the mirror and the danger is that you go home and keep looking at yourself'
This picture belongs to my ongoing series ‘Affinities’.
Bert Hardy, Picture Post photographer and Anne Scott-James, women's editor of the magazine during the war. The elegant Fleet-street journalist who became Lady Lancaster recalled the Cockney snapper's penetrating eye, his charm. In her autobiographical book, Sketches from Life she devoted a chapter to Hardy. : 'Some of our assignments were far away in the provinces, and the travelling conditions might be rugged, with crowded or even benighted trains, scarce food and sordid hotels, but Bert always made the trip more of an adventure than a slog.'
This picture belongs to my ongoing series ‘Affinities’.
Dafoe regularly shuns the film world to work with the improvisational theatre company the Wooster Group, which is how he met Kate. 'She was shy and self effacing, but such a natural performer. I feel like I've grown up with her. I'm always excited to see her. How many people can say that about a colleague?’.
This picture belongs to my ongoing series ‘Affinities’.
In 1988, Michael Clark nearly died. One of Britain's most gofted young dancers, his addiction to drink and drugs had led to two overdoses. Then, in 1989, he met the American chorographer Stephen Petronio while walking with his mother at Glasgow's Mayfest. It was the beginning of a relationship that was to help Stephen kick his drug habit. It was seeing the American dancer's work that reawakened his own interest in dance and life.
This picture belongs to my ongoing series ‘Affinities’.