I stared at the legal document. It looked almost identical to the first time I saw it four years ago, except for paragraph seven which was longer this time, expanded by a jumble of names that were all too familiar to me. I was surprised by the intensity of sadness that I felt as I read the names and looked through the portraits that I had taken back in 2015. A sense of failure overwhelmed me as I added the photographs of 10 miners to the folder on my computer labelled “passed”.
SECTION27 was the legal representative of the Treatment Action Campaign and Sonke Gender Justice who had been admitted asin the case to show the impact at community and household level. There was a feeling that these applicants could merely become numbers and that it was important to show the world who they are and where they live, to make those numbers human.
Back to the now and to paragraph seven. SECTION27 and their publication Spotlight were planning another exhibition of theportraits as part of the human rights festival at Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg at the end of March 2019. As I prepared the portraits for printing I requested from one of the legal firms an update on the miners that I had photographed.
I was welcomed into every home, without exception, my reasoning accepted; and generously given the time and information that I needed to tell their story.
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