Foam presents Human Bondage, a large-scale overview of the work of photographer Ernest Cole, mostly known for depicting apartheid in South-Afrika. As one of the first Black freelance photographers, Cole’s work offers a rare inside view. Less known is his work from his time in the US, where he continued to portray the lives of Black people. Cole’s negatives were considered lost for a long time, but a collection of 60,000 of them was found at a bank vault in Stockholm and, in April 2018, given to his heirs who had founded The Ernest Cole Family Trust. On view from 27 January.
FOAM presents Ernest Cole
Foam presents an overview of the work of photographer Ernest Cole, mostly known for his photographs depicting apartheid in South-Afrika. As one of the first Black freelance photographers, Cole’s work offers a rare inside view. Less known is his work from his time in the US, where he continued to portray the lives of Black people.
