People Apart 1950s Cape Town Revisited

People Apart: 1950s Cape Town Revisited offers a rich and fascinating insight into South Africa at the very beginning of the apartheid era through Bryan Heseltine's previously unpublished photography of the early 1950s. Heseltine's work is replete with historical, social and political implications; yet, at the same time, these images transcend the purely documentary to earn a place in the realm of art. The photographs evidence a respect for the subjects and their urban environment that ran counter to the ideology of apartheid; and Heseltine's sensitive approach gave visual expression to the emerging anti-apartheid sentiments of the period, a fact highlighted in the later 1950s when the images were appropriated by the emerging international anti-apartheid movement.