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This book has been re-printed this year 2008. Copies are available to order from SAHO. Click here to place an order for this book.

A collection of remarkable work brought to us by a man of extraordinary spirit, courage, fragility, tenacity, complexity and eye. The photography is pervaded by a sense of fine discernment and passionate concern for the subject. There are no cheap shots here and no facile concessions to popular, political or artistic correctness…
- David Goldblatt

First Published by SAHO & Unisa Press, 2004, the book sold out. Due to popular demand, a re-print and update of the book has been done for the International bookfair in Cape Town (June 2008).

Cape Flats Detail is an extraordinary and rare collection of high quality photographs taken by Chris Ledochowski over a period of 25 years. His work has taken him across the cultural, racial and class boundaries of the Cape Flats townships. The title embraces deeper issues and relationships that he attempted to convey through the medium of photography.