Santu Mofokeng's questions
Text inserts across the pages of the The Black Photo Album / Look at me: 1890 - 1950:
Who is gazing? What was the occasion? Are these mere solemn relics of disrupted narratives or are these images expressive of the general human predicament? Are these images evidence of mental colonization or did they serve to challenge prevailing images of ‘The African’ in the western world?