It is sad to remember when news photographer for his death (died on day 21 at 82) and not having a post dedicated before telling why his figure is important in photography. It gave us time, but from here Alf Kumalo mentioned today to review his career and what he brought to the story.
There are photographers who go down in history for his work, stylistically speaking, and what others documented. Alf Kumalo is important because thanks to your pictures is proof of that part of the history of South Africa where the African people who lived the years of Apartheid became free.
Born in Johannesburg in 1930, was a pioneer of photojournalism in South Africa. Tumelo had Mosaka According to a publication by the Atlantic Centre of Modern Art, is known as "a man of our time" and "their attraction for photography is related to its immense ability to recall visual images, and interest in finding a language to express the horrors of black life in South Africa. "
He began working in advertising and making wedding reports, for later document their surroundings and start collaborating with The Bantu World Newspaper (only paper where photographers could sell their photographs black), for later follow with Drum Magazine , at a time that fear of incarceration was present in the photojournalists.
Definitely a photographer must know to be part of the history of South Africa, where the images published even pierced borders New York Times and other leading journals. Admired by the African people, according to a ruling party spokesman Nelson Mandela, "will always be indebted to Alf Kumalo for having been in his service in the complaint of an inhuman system" leaves us his legacy and a free school for young creators in Diepkloof.
