Ernest Cole’s photographs exposed the brutality of South African apartheid in the mid 1960s. As his work gained international recognition, he fled to the United States.
In New York City, where his work focussed on African American urban life, Cole had some success. But in the early 1970s he abandoned photography and led a marginal life until his death in 1990. Almost 30 years later 60,000 of Cole’s photos were found in a Swedish bank vault providing grounds for a reassessment of his remarkable talent.
“a treasure beyond the images that miraculously survived, and none is better equipped to tell this complex yet revealing story than Peck himself”, Jason Gorber, POV Magazine
Awards and Nominations
Director
Raoul Peck
Film Details
2024, 106 min
France
Languages
English
Editor
Alexandra Strauss
Cinematographers
Junji Naagano, Mark Rankin, BrianWolfgang Held, Moses Tau
Producers
Tamara Rosenberg, Laurence Lascary, Remi Grellety, Olivier Pere
