ABSTRACT
Santu Mofokeng explored different approaches to the idea of landscape, and his concept of it changed over time. He examined it within the context of the western genre connected to themes of ownership, control, trauma and aftermath, and used his photography to highlight the continued contradictions and inequalities in the South African terrain. Mofokeng's path to the practice of photography started in 1973, when at the age of seventeen he started taking pictures as a street photographer in Johannesburg and Soweto. Mofokeng's image Sunflower Harvest contains very specific elements which he wanted to portray. The dramatic crop of the landowner's arm leaves no doubt about his authority. For decades, apartheid restrictions prevented the majority of South Africans from taking control of their destiny.
