Achievements of Peter Magubane and David Goldblatt show our different stories belong together

Two of SA’s Nobel peace prize laureates, Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, join hands at Ipeleng White City, Soweto, circa 2000. Picture: PETER MAGUBANE AND GOODMAN GALLERY

Magubane photographed many major events that changed the country. His documentation of the 1976 uprising became the defining work of his career and in 1986 he won the prestigious Robert Capa award for courageous journalism. Magubane saved the family of a fallen impimpi from being hacked to death by furious comrades in Leandra.

At the opening of the exhibition, his widow, Lilly Goldblatt, explained that there were not many dorps in this country her husband didn’t visit. She told a funny story: “We were travelling to Secunda with our daughter Brenda. She asked David to stop the car. He stopped the car and said, ‘What is it?’ Brenda responded, ‘There is a blade of grass you haven’t photographed!’”He contributed to various anti-apartheid exhibitions locally and internationally.

Although their work came from two very different perspectives it is united by many common themes to provide a graphic documentation of SA society, its values, marginalised communities, inherent integrity and liberation. Saturday morning at the Hypermarket: semifinal of the Miss Lovely Legs Competition, June 28 1980. Picture: DAVID GOLDBLATT AND GOODMAN GALLERY

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