Living Apart

In the post-war period the South African government gradually developed a policy that was meant to retain for ever the rights and privileges of a white minority: apartheid. Racial prejudices and tensions may create difficulties in many societies, but only in South Africa was segregation institutionalized and regulated. The results were tragic and disturbing. This aspect of the South African, the duty to 'Live Apart' while occupying the same space, has been uniquely recorded by the camera of Ian Berry. He first set out for South Africa as a boy of seventeen and thus began a career of recording ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances. Present at the Sharpeville riots in 1960, Berry has returned to South Africa many times in the course of the succeeding decades and captured many of its most significant moments, including the election and its remarkable aftermath.'A compelling history that is beautifully presented.' (American Photo)