Victory in the Shadows

Through blur, darkness and drift, the photographer Santu Mofokeng shows that black South Africans are more than their suffering.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/magazine/victory-in-the-shadows.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The photographer is Santu Mofokeng, and the caption of the image opens up a world: ‘‘The Drumming, Johannesburg- Soweto Line, from Train Church, 1986.’’ We now know that we are in South Africa, that the hand is not at rest as we might have first guessed but drumming on the wall of a train carriage and that the train carriage is doing double duty as a church.