ABSTRACT
Photography came into its own, that is, beyond the static moment of a record of who was there, with the advent both of lighter cameras and the slowly dawning international interest in colonialism and the need to decolonise. No photographs survive of the Kliptown the delegates saw. One still meets aged veterans of 1955 in the streets, or at Bolo Blom's community centre, where they tell their stories and Bolo shows off his photographs of Kliptown as it is now, curating the identikit images of what it was like then, before finally the African National Congress (ANC) bulldozers come and "renew" the slum with "modern" housing units with toilets inside them. The earlier the photographs, particularly of the struggle against colonialism, the more static they are. In 2015, an exhibition called 'Human Rights, Human Wrongs' was held in London, at the Photographers' Gallery, just off Oxford Street.
