Sue Johnson ha pasado un año fotografiando la vida de los habitantes de un suburbio de Ciudad del Cabo. Ahora "expone" las imágenes en su web, y vende las fotografías para apoyar económicamente a las gentes de esa cuidad.
A través del día a día de Montolo, una mujer habitante del suburbio, nos narra en imágenes los problemas de este tipo de asentamientos urbanos. También ha creado una presentación multimedia de su trabajo, My house, my shack.
I have spent this past year photographing in Khayelitsha, one of the many townships outside of Cape Town. I have been working with a woman named Momtolo who has lived in her shack in "Site C" in the heart of the Khayelitsha for the last 20 years. She has been my guide, my eyes, and my friend. Each week we have gone back to hand out photographs from the previous week. Many people have never had a photograph taken of them before. Together we have put together this exhibition of photographs of her family and her neighborhood.
Momtolo has cataracts and her sight has been growing worse over the past few months. She can no longer see the photographs when I bring them back each week, and yet she still suggests images for us to make, pointing out good light, and walking up and down the same street with me again and again looking for the street vendors, mechanics, tavern owners, and children that we photographed the previous week.
Momtolo, like all of her neighbors in the township, lives on the edge, marginalized by apartheid and its legacy of poverty and unemployment.
We hope to sell these photographs that we have made together in order to raise money for her family and for the families that we photographed.
We are selling each photo (11x17") for $100. To purchase a photograph, please contact me at: [email protected].
Vía Worldchanging.