Donor: Bryan Heseltine 2014 Going and Coming Back In the late 1940s and early 1950s the South African-born, English-educated photographer Bryan Heseltine made a series of extraordinary photographs in and around Cape Town. At the time the city was in the midst of...
Photographer: Paul Grendon 2017 Lionel Davis Retrospective Exhibition: Gathering Strands “Art is a celebration of life. I am concerned with cultural diversity, socio-political issues, poverty, injustice, racism, and xenophobia in my art work. But in my life there will...
Photographer: Unknown 2016 Print Exchange: “Remembering 60 000 forced goodbyes” As part of the Museum’s 2016 commemoration programme marking the declaration of District Six as a White Group Area on 11 February 1966, an exhibition entitled ‘Remembering 60 000 forced...
Photographers: Paul Grendon & Tina Smith 2016 USAKOS – Photographs Beyond Ruins: The Old Location Albums USAKOS – Photographs Beyond Ruins: The Old Location Albums, 1920’s-1960 Exhibition opened at the District Six Museum in February 2016. This was the month that...
Photographer: Jansje Wissema, Cape Institute for Architecture 2012 District Six: People Lived Here Jansje Wissema, A Dutch photographer, was commissioned by the then Cape Institute of Architects (now the Cape Institute for Architecture) to record District Six in the...
