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These photographs are about memory, racial spaces and life in a South African ghetto in the turbulent 1980’s, when the threat of prison, exile and death, stared our children in the face as they confronted the white ruling class and its black collaborators in our streets.
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These photographs were taken in the so-called "Grey Street" area or "Coolie Town" as it was commonly referred to by many of my white compatriots in the privacy of their own ghettoes.
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They started off as a visual diary. A tool to help me map my way through the racial maze, created over a century of colonialism, apartheid and my own "Indianness".
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The photographs are about moments that speak of history, spaces and the rituals that rulers, collaborators and subjects, play out in front of the camera and its biased gaze...
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These photographs are about a ghetto whose history mirrored the colonial and apartheid heritage that shaped the identities and second class status of the African, Indian and coloured "communities".
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