The Return 1
| CCAC #: | 0517 |
| Artwork title: | The Return 1 |
| Artist(s): |
Greg Marinovich |
| Year made: | 1994 |
| Artwork type: | Photography |
| Medium: | Photograph |
| Dimensions (mm): | 460 x 600 |
| Framed dimensions (in mm): | 560 x 700 |
| Edition: | 3/5 |
| Artwork series: |
Dead Zone |
| Source: | Donated by the Dippenaar Family Trust, with the artist, in 2018 |
| Year acquired: | 2018 |
| Installation type: | Movable artwork |
| Location area: | On a travelling exhibition |
| Signage: | A family carries home their belongings after months spent in a tented refugee camp, designated for ANC-supporting families from the Sonkombo area in KwaZulu-Natal, from which they had fled months earlier because of attacks by rival Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters. Upon their return, most of them found that their mud rondavels had been looted and torched. The Dead Zone portfolio, by photo-journalist Greg Marinovich, offers a wide-ranging visual history of the internecine conflicts and violent strife that engulfed large parts of South Africa in the 1990s, as the country was transitioning from apartheid to democracy. |
| Themes: |
Photojournalism |
Photographer: Greg Marinovich
Photo copyright: Greg Marinovich
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