Photos of South Africa Show a Country Still Divided
Joao Silva came of age chronicling South Africa’s transition to democracy. In a new series of images, he looks at how the country’s gap between rich and poor poses new challenges.
Joao Silva came of age as a photographer documenting social upheaval in South Africa. Between the early 1990s — when apartheid ended — to the country’s first democratic election in 1994, Mr. Silva, a staff photographer for The New York Times, captured deadly political violence that eventually led to the abolition of its system of racial segregation.