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
Current location: On a travelling exhibition
Exhibitions: A LUTA CONTINUA: Reflecting on 30 years of democracy through the CCAC - National Arts Festival, Makhanda - 20 to 30 June 2024
A LUTA CONTINUA: Reflecting on 30 years of democracy through the CCAC - William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley - 1 August to 7 September 2024
A LUTA CONTINUA: Reflecting on 30 years of democracy through the CCAC - KZNSA Gallery, Durban - 27 September - 10 November 2024
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

CCAC 438332

Photographer: Greg Marinovich
Photo copyright: Greg Marinovich

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