The images come from his own experience in his native country, and his work reflects his arguments in regards to the status of African people, subjected to early Europeans, establishing in South Africa. These black and white photographs narrate the discrimination, scrutiny, exploitation, vicissitudes and cultural assimilation process, evidenced in the impacting scenes depicted by the artist.
Cole's work in this honorable exhibition infiltrate the hidden face of a South African labor class, as a racially discriminated and physically exploited and humiliated community. His work also shows another side of that reality, evidencing few moments of joy and cultural pleasure, leaking from hard-work endeavors to which they where forced.
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