Despite six decades of documenting South Africa’s history, Ranjith Kally is not a household name. His legacy deserves to be remembered and his name etched into history books. Kally’s images span a time period of 1946-2010 and his diverse repertoire captures the South Asian community in KwaZulu Natal, political heroes, labour, apartheid, protests, jazz, beauty contests, street-life, sports and other forms of social history. In it, we find a kind of genuine solidarity and toget

I'm sitting on the floor, surrounded by his life. Dust and detritus everywhere costume fragments, etching plates, drawings, photographs, paintings. The birds are loud outside, and so is the sea. It's quiet otherwise. Just me and the accumulated weight of it all. There’s a sign he used to make and stick up on the building site of our childhood home, where I grew up: “Mind Your Mind.” A warning about bumping your head. I feel mine bumping against something heavier now—the archi

AN INTERVIEW WITH EMBROIDERY ARTIST DANIELLE CLOUGH Danielle Clough has given up her iPhone. Well, sort of. “I’ve noticed that my attention is very fractured because of my phone, so I got a light phone a few months ago, and I am loving it,” she says. We’re about halfway through our mid-August Zoom interview, and we’ve reached the crux of the matter. Danielle – gracious, open and generous with her time – is dialing in from Paradigm gallery in Philadelphia, where she’d just set

An Unbelievable Sketch of Sir David De Villiers Graaff, the first Afrikaner Mogul “Graaff fulfilled an ideal that had taken root among some wealthy business people internationally by the end of the 19th century - that wealthy people had a moral duty to start giving away part of their fortune during their lifetime. The American steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie was probably the first industrialist to openly declare, with scorching judgement in his ‘Gospel of Wealth’, that those who