ERNEST COLE, Handcuffed blacks were arrested for being in a white area illegally, South Africa, 1960's.- Courtesy of the artist and KYOTOGRAPHIE (Kyoto International Photography Festival). In collaboration with Magnum Photos.
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House of Bondage
18/04/2026 - 17/05/2026
KYOTOGRAPHIE (Kyoto International Photography Festival)
Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art,
Main Building South Wing 2F
Kyoto
https://www.kyotographie.jp/
In collaboration with Magnum Photos
Ernest Cole’s publication House of Bondage (1967) is a sustained photographic investigation into the everyday realities of life under apartheid. Over years of clandestine work, Cole documented mines, hospitals, courts, police stations, prisons, and townships, using stark black-and-white images to reveal systems of forced labour, surveillance, and degradation. His photographs combine intimate portraits with incisive documentary sequences, emphasising both individual experience and the structures that constrained it.
This exhibition brings together Ernest Cole’s photographs and his writings to restore the full scope of House of Bondage. As a personal and collective indictment of apartheid, it is a landmark work in the history of photojournalism, where images and words combine to bear witness – and to accuse.
18/04/2026 - 17/05/2026
KYOTOGRAPHIE (Kyoto International Photography Festival)
Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art,
Main Building South Wing 2F
Kyoto
https://www.kyotographie.jp/
In collaboration with Magnum Photos
Ernest Cole’s publication House of Bondage (1967) is a sustained photographic investigation into the everyday realities of life under apartheid. Over years of clandestine work, Cole documented mines, hospitals, courts, police stations, prisons, and townships, using stark black-and-white images to reveal systems of forced labour, surveillance, and degradation. His photographs combine intimate portraits with incisive documentary sequences, emphasising both individual experience and the structures that constrained it.
This exhibition brings together Ernest Cole’s photographs and his writings to restore the full scope of House of Bondage. As a personal and collective indictment of apartheid, it is a landmark work in the history of photojournalism, where images and words combine to bear witness – and to accuse.