About South African photographer Santu MOFOKENG (1956-2020)
Santu MOFOKENG started his career as a street photographer in Soweto during the apartheid era. After receiving the Ernest Cole Fellowship in 1991, he studied at the International Center for Photography in New York. In 1998 he received a grant from the Künstlerhaus Worpswede and in 2002 a DAAD grant in Berlin. His first international retrospective opened in May 2011 at the Jeu de Paume in Paris. In 2013 he represented the Federal Republic of Germany at the Venice Biennale together with Ai Weiwei, Romuald Karmakar and Dayanita SINGH. Santu MOFOKENG passed away in Johannesburg in 2020.
Photo books by and about the work of Santu MOFOKENG
- 'TAXI004' (2002)
'Violence in a Time of Liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994' (2011)
'Chasing Shadows.: 30 Years of Photographic Essays' (2011)
'The Black Photo Album / Look at Me: 1890-1950' (2013)
'La Biennale di Venezia 2013, German Pavilion: Ai Weiwei, Romuald Karmakar, Santu Mofokeng, Dayanita Singh' (2013)
'Stories # 1. Train Church' (2015)
'Stories # 2-4. Concert at Sewefontein―Funeral ―27 April 1994' (2016)
'A Silent Solitude. Photographs 1982-2011' (2017)
'Stories # 5-7. Soweto―Dukathole―Johannesburg' (2018)
'A Santu Mofokeng Reader' (only announced so far)