Alfred Khumalo (b. 1930) (better known as Alf Khumalo) (also spelled Kumalo) is a South African photographer. Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa A photographer is a person who takes a Photograph using a Camera.
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Overview
Alf Khumalo was born in Alexandra near Johannesburg. Alexandra (sometimes nicknamed "Alex" is a township located in Gauteng province, South Africa. Johannesburg ( Pronounced /jō-hān'ĭs-bûrg'/ is the largest city in South Africa. He first worked in a garage doing various jobs and then started freelancing for various publications, selling his photographs where he could. He did a lot of work for the Bantu World. The World, originally named The Bantu World, was the Johannesburg black daily newspaper which published photographer Sam Nzima's iconic image of Hector Pieterson
In 1956, he found a permanent position at the Golden City Post. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
In 1963, while working for Drum magazine, he was selected together with Harry Mashabela to go and shoot a story about African students in the Iron Curtain countries. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Drum is a South African family magazine mainly aimed at Black readers and contains market news entertainment and feature articles The two made the front cover of the next edition of the magazine, Drum men go to Europe.
While in London, he interviewed Cassius Clay and then found out that he had won first place in a photographic competition. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Biography Early life Cassius Clay Jr was born on January 17 1942 The prize was an Austin Cambridge motor car. See Austin A40 for other A40 models The Austin Cambridge (sold as A40, A50, A55, and A60) [1]
Kumalo had been encouraged to enter by David Hazelhurst, the editor of Drum.
Kumalo had used his African names Mangaliso Dukuza because he wanted the judging to be impartial and not influenced by his reputation. A picture of him and his award was published by the Star on its front page. The Star is a daily newspaper based in Gauteng, South Africa. A lot of black people talked about it for days afterwards, because in those days they would only get on to the front pages of white newspapers if they were thieves. [1]
Despite the prospect of being arrested and assaulted, Khumalo kept on taking pictures, sometimes at personal cost. David Hazelhurst recalled: One day in 1963, when I was editor of Drum magazine, Alf Khumalo walked into my office carrying a picture. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Drum is a South African family magazine mainly aimed at Black readers and contains market news entertainment and feature articles It showed a burly policeman delivering a vicious kick between the legs of reporter Harry Mashabela from behind. Such was the power of the kick you could see the shape of his boot exploding through the front of Mashabela’ trousers.
It was the year of the jackboot of John Vorster, habeas corpus had disappeared, the 90-day-detention without trial Act had given policemen a license to kill and assault behind closed doors with impunity. Balthazar Johannes Vorster (13 December 1915 - 10 September 1983 better known as John Vorster ("FOUR-stir" served as the Prime Minister of South Africa Habeas corpus (ˈheɪbiəs ˈkɔɹpəs ( Latin: command that you have the body is the name of a legal action or Writ, through which a person can seek relief
The police hated journalists – and photographers in particular, for their pictures portrayed the truth about an evil system, and Kumalo, despite warnings, risked a severe beating to take the Mashabela picture. He had tried to sell it to several papers with no success. [2]
However, Hazelhurst splashed the picture across two pages of Drum.
Over the years he has photographed and documented many of the historic moments in recent South African history. These include the Treason Trial, the Rivonia Trial, the emergence of Black Consciousness, the Student Uprising of 1976 and the Codesa talks. The Treason Trial was a trial in which 156 people (105 Blacks 21 Indians 23 Whites and 7 Coloureds including Nelson Mandela, were arrested in a raid and accused of treason The Rivonia Trial was a trial that took place in South Africa between 1963 and 1964, in which ten leaders of the African National Congress The Black Consciousness Movement ( BCM was a Grassroots anti- Apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of The Soweto uprising or Soweto Riots were a series of clashes in Soweto, South Africa on June 16 1976 between black youths and the South African Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of negotiations between 1990 and 1993 and through unilateral steps by the De Klerk government This was despite numerous periods of detention, arrests and official harassment.
His work has appeared in international newspapers like The Observer, New York Times, New York Post, and the Sunday Independent. The Observer is a British Newspaper published on Sundays In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The The New York Post is the 13th-oldest Newspaper published in the United States and generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continually The Sunday Independent is a Broadsheet Sunday Newspaper published in the Republic of Ireland by Independent News and Media plc Locally, he also worked for Drum magazine and the long defunct Rand Daily Mail. Drum is a South African family magazine mainly aimed at Black readers and contains market news entertainment and feature articles The Rand Daily Mail was a Johannesburg daily newspaper with an anti-apartheid bias that broke the news about the apartheid state's disinformation funding scandal in [3]
In order to assist the upcoming generation of South African photographers, Khumalo opened a photographic school in Diepkloof Soweto. Diepmeadow is a township that is part of the greater Soweto in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Soweto is an urban area in the City of Johannesburg, in Gauteng, South Africa. The school offers nine month courses designed to train photographers from disadvantaged backgrounds. [4]
Books
- Mandela : echoes of an era / by Alf Kumalo ; text by Es'kia Mphahlele, Penguin Books, 1990, ISBN 0-14-014316-5
- Alf Kumalo: South African Photographer, Itala Vivan & Alf Kumalo, Leonardo arte, ISBN 8-8-7813384-1
Film and video
Solo Exhibitions
- 2004 - 59th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York - a collection of his life’s work - the exhibition was much acclaimed [4]
Selected group exhibitions
- 2001 - Soweto – A South African Myth - Photographs from the 1950s (by Alf Khumalo, Ernest Cole and Jürgen Schadeberg). The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security The City of New York The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive Ernest Cole (b 1940 d 1990 was a South African Photographer. Overview Ernest Cole was born in Eersterust in Pretoria. Jürgen Schadeberg (born 1931) is a South African Photographer and Artist. The core of the exhibition is the student uprising of 1976. The Soweto uprising or Soweto Riots were a series of clashes in Soweto, South Africa on June 16 1976 between black youths and the South African Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This includes some of Peter Magubane's work. Peter Magubane (born 1932 is a South African Photographer. Overview He was born in Vrededorp now Pageview, a suburb in Johannesburg
- 2002 - Shooting Resistance: South African Photography 1976 - 1994 - The exhibition documented the period of upheavals that began with the student-led Soweto uprising of 1976 and culminated in the collapse of the apartheid regime and the introduction of democratic elections in 1994. The Soweto uprising or Soweto Riots were a series of clashes in Soweto, South Africa on June 16 1976 between black youths and the South African Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Included were photographs by Alf Khumalo, Jürgen Schadeberg and Peter Magubane. Jürgen Schadeberg (born 1931) is a South African Photographer and Artist. Peter Magubane (born 1932 is a South African Photographer. Overview He was born in Vrededorp now Pageview, a suburb in Johannesburg
- 2006 - Madiba: Public and Private - Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg. Works by photographers Alf Kumalo and Jürgen Schadeberg. Jürgen Schadeberg (born 1931) is a South African Photographer and Artist. . Schadeberg's photos are of the public images of Mandela from the 1950s, during the Defiance Campaign and before Mandela's imprisonment, while Kumalo's are of Mandela's private life, particularly of his family. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (xolíɬaɬa mandéːla born 18 July 1918 is a former President of South Africa, the first to be elected in fully representative The Defiance Campaign against Unjust Laws was presented by the African National Congress (ANC at a conference held in Bloemfontein South Africa in December Many of Kumalo's pictures were taken of Mandela's growing family, to send to Mandela in jail.
Awards
- 2004 – South African Order of Ikhamanga in Silver awarded for his excellent contribution to documentary photography and journalism in South Africa. [5]
- 2005 - South African National Editors Forum Nat Nakasa Award for Media Integrity for displaying courageous journalism throughout his professional career. [2]
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References
- ^ a b "Alf Kumalo celebrates 50 years in journalism", mediaweb, mediaweb. Retrieved on 2007-05-21. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 878 - Syracuse Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
- ^ a b "Veteran photographer Alf Kumalo wins the 2005 Nat Nakasa Award", SA National Editors Forum. Retrieved on 2007-05-17. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1521 - Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for Treason.
- ^ Majavu, Mandisi. "Alf Khumalo: 5 decades in photos", SA Information, 2004-11-05. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier ( Brittany) Retrieved on 2007-05-16. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
- ^ a b Mynhardt, Izane. "Interview: Alfred Khumalo", New Visions Africa. Retrieved on 2007-05-16. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
- ^ "Alfred Khumalo", S A Government, 2004-11-10. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw Retrieved on 2007-05-16. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
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