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Sarah Stacke, Zipporah playing with the laundry. 2022. From the book Love from Manenberg (Kehrer Verlag, 2022).
Magnum Foundation invites you to a conversation and book signing in honor of Love from Manenberg (Kehrer Verlag, 2022), a new book by 2020 Magnum Foundation grantee Sarah Stacke. The event will feature Stacke in conversation with scholar John Edwin Mason, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Copies of the book will be available for purchase on site.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 | 6:30 - 8:30 PM ET
In-person and online
59 East 4th St, 7W | New York, NY 10003
Love from Manenberg looks at life in Manenberg, South Africa, in particular the experiences of women and their children. The work makes room for complex narratives pushed aside by the media and shows the ways families look to the future and carry the joy, grief, and everyday realities of life in a community plagued by gang violence. A total of only 1.29 square miles, statistics reveal that people living in Manenberg are three times as likely to get murdered than anywhere else in South Africa. Through fortitude and faith, the people of Manenberg persevere and prosper. Sarah Stacke first photographed this neighborhood of Cape Town in June 2011. For over a decade, the women of the Lottering, Pietersen, and Adams families have shared their lives, showing the texture, unity, and comfort of their home. The title of the book reflects the love these women embody, but also describes the relationships the photographer has formed with them. They have become a part of the fabric of each other’s lives.
Sarah Stacke is a photojournalist and archival researcher based in Brooklyn, New York. Through long-term projects created in dialogue with communities, she seeks to share stories about relationships to the land and its boundaries that are solutions-oriented. Sarah photographs for National Geographic, The New York Times, among others, and is a co-founder of The 400 Years Project, a photography collective looking at the evolution of Indigenous American identity, rights, and representation.
Photo credit: Stephanie Gross
John Edwin Mason teaches African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia, where he directs the university's Holsinger Portrait Project, an initiative which explores the history of Black Virginians through studio portraits that were made over a century ago. He is also writing a book about the twentieth-century African American photographer, writer, and filmmaker Gordon Parks. His first book was a ground-breaking study of slavery in colonial South Africa, while his second, a study of the Cape Town New Year's Carnival, was based on the four years that he spent as a member of a carnival troupe in Hanover Park, Cape Town. He has written numerous articles on South African history, photography, and jazz and is a documentary photographer with a special interest in music and motorsports.
Magnum Foundation is in an elevator building and has a restroom that is wheelchair accessible and gender-neutral. For access requests or questions, please contact events@magnumfoundation.org. As a small team, we will better be able to respond to requests made at least one week in advance.
Masks are currently appreciated, but not required. We may provide additional instructions ahead of the event.