Alexia Webster’s Photos of a South African Village Still Grappling With Apartheid

Atop a Mountain, South Africa’s Ghosts

In Hogsback, South Africa, a mountaintop village surrounded by mist and a primeval forest, the legacy of apartheid still permeates relations between white and black residents.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/atop-a-mountain-south-africas-ghosts/

For as long as Alexia Webster can remember, she has visited Hogsback with her family at least once a year, driving nine hours from their home in Johannesburg to a cluster of cabins her great-grandfather built nearly a century ago. To a young child, Hogsback was a mystical place full of ancient trees and twisted foliage, like something out of a J. R. R. Tolkien novel. In fact, Hogsback has often been misidentified as Tolkien’s inspiration for “Lord of the Rings.”