Hugh Masekela, the giant trumpet player (he had a Billboard no.1 hit in 1968. People forget that), has a new show, “Songs of Migration,” that just played in Johannesburg (a decent review of the show over at the South African cultural blog Mahala.). It is a revival of the music made and sung by migrants […]
PHOTOGRAPHY / SABELO MLANGENI
December 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’ve featured the work of Johannesburg photographer Sabelo Mlangeni before. The photographs above is from his series “Men Only” series which documents the daily routines of residents of the run-down George Goch hostel on the East Rand of Johannesburg. The “hostel” (more like structures fit for animals) was built by mining capital for black migrant […]
