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Homes to policing: Lockdown photos document South Africa inequality

Homes to policing: Lockdown photos document South Africa inequality

KIM HARRISBERG A security officer holds a shotgun against his body in inner-city Johannesburg, eyeing a homeless man carrying a bag of food on his shoulders as he vacates the area. The photo captures one of a multitude of everyday inequalities that South African photographer Gulshan Khan has been documenting during the coronavirus pandemic. From heavy-handed policing to abandoned buildings-turned-homeless shelters, Khan is using her online following and recent international awards recognition to spotlight the spatial and racial divide across the country. "Race classification and segregation under apartheid demolished so much of our rich heritage and my photography interrogates the…
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