A moving portrait of the people in Manenberg, South Africa
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. Through fortitude and faith, they persevere and prosper.
Sarah Stacke first photographed Manenberg, a 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 faculty member at the International Center of Photography (ICP). She received a master's degree from Duke University and is the author of the award-winning book, Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum (Red Hook Editions/Jet Age Books, 2018).
Carl Collison is a freelance journalist based in South Africa, who focuses specifically on LGBTI issues across Africa. He was shortlisted for the 2018 Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology, which celebrates excellence in queer writing and photography from across Africa.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (b. 1955) is Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University, where she holds the South African National Research Foundation Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma and the Research Chair in Historical Trauma and Transformation. She is the 2020-2021 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Her research interest is in historical trauma and its intergenerational repercussions and exploring what the “repair” of these transgenerational effects might mean. She has published extensively on victims and perpetrators of gross human rights violations, and on forgiveness and remorse.John Edwin Mason teaches African history and the history of photography. He has written extensively on early nineteenth-century South African history, especially the history of slavery, photography and South African popular culture with a focus on the Cape Town New Year's Carnival and jazz. His research now concerns African-American and South African photography.
Bonnie Briant (b.1986 Albany, New York), is a graphic designer who grew up in Rhode Island. She currently lives and works in New York City.
