SANTU MOFOKENG Weißer geht's nicht
New article by Freddy Langer (German language)
FAZ, 23 Feb 2023
Long-term
observations from South Africa: Gallery Thomas Zander is showing the Billboards by photographer Santu Mofokeng. Instead of bright colors, he
showed more of the dark side. South Africa is the country over which the sun
pours its light in such a way that the hills of the savannah glow from within
and on the boulevards of the big cities the passers-by seem to be illuminated
as if they were in the limelight of searchlights. But there is hardly anything
of that to be seen in the pictures of Santu Mofokeng. Until his death in
January 2020, the photographer devoted himself to the corners and life
situations in South Africa where things are rather gloomy. He was never
concerned with the colors of the country. All the more about the conflict between
black and white.