MOFOKENG, Santu

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)

MOFOKENG, Santu - Chasing Shadows. Thirty years of photographic essays
MOFOKENG, Santu - Chasing Shadows. Thirty years of photographic essays
In the out-of-print monograph titled 'Chasing Shadows', Santu MOFOKENG, who documented the fight against apartheid and the living conditions of the South African population in his photographs, describes his approaches and approach in an interview.
120,00 € Weight 1.5 kg
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MOFOKENG, Santu - The Black Photo Album / Look at Me: 1890–1950
MOFOKENG, Santu - The Black Photo Album / Look at Me: 1890–1950
Private photographs commissioned by urban black workers and middle-class families in South Africa between 1890 and 1950. MOFOKENG analyzes the self-image and the desire for social recognition of the black population in times of colonial oppression.
34,00 € *
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'Events of the Self. Contemporary African Photography'
'Events of the Self. Contemporary African Photography'
from the Walther Collection by Okwui Enwezor (ed.) With photo works by Seydou KEITA, Malick SIDIBÉ, J.D. Okhai OJEIKERE, Santu MOFOKENG, August SANDER, Bernd & Hilla BECHER (among others)
68,00 € *
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MOFOKENG, Santu - Stories
MOFOKENG, Santu - Stories
Archival boxed set of 21 pb.s , 24 x 32 cm., 1,046 pp., 551 ills., text language: English. Ltd. to 1,000 copies
385,00 € *
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MOFOKENG, Santu - Stories #2-4. Concert at Sewefontein, Funeral, 27 April 1994
MOFOKENG, Santu - Stories #2-4. Concert at Sewefontein, Funeral, 27 April 1994
3x SC in a bag (no dust jacket, as issued), 120 pp., 24 x 32 cm., b/w ills., text language: English
45,00 € *
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MOFOKENG, Santu - Stories #1. Train Church
MOFOKENG, Santu - Stories #1. Train Church
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 32 cm., 96 pp., text langauge: English
38,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
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