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Paul Weinberg(1956) is a South African born photographer. He is best known as a photojournalist and documentary photographer. He is especially known for his work documenting the contemporary world of the San and Khoi people of the Northern Cape, Namibia and southern Botswana.

Education

Weinberg was born in Pietermaritzburg. He studied Political Science and Economic History at the University of Natal (B.A. 1978). He got a certificate in photography at Natal Technikon (1978) and studied Arts and Liberal Studies at Duke University (M.A. 2005).

Career

1978 Natal Witness
1979 Taught photography for one year at the Community Arts Open School
1980 - 82 Set up the Media Centre at the South African Institute of Race Relations
1982 Worked in production for the Interchurch Media Programme, helped establish Afrascope, a community film unit, and Afrapix, a photographic collective and agency
Worked on retainer for the Sunday Tribune
1983 - Freelance photographer
1984 Consultant on the film And Now We Have No Land
1988-1993 Worked part-time for Environmental and Development Agency photographing projects in rural environments, exploring ways of communicating with a rural audience with a low level of literacy. Photo editor of New Ground magazine
1994 Official photographer for the Independent Electoral Commission during
South Africa's 1994 election period (the book An End to Waiting includes this documentation)
2008 -10 Senior Curator, Centre for Curating the Archive, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT
2011 Senior Curator, Visual Archives, UCT Libraries

Durban Series

Notable People and Events

Once We Were Hunters Series

Dear Edward Series

In Search of the San Series

Travelling Light Series

Moving Spirit

TEACHING/WORKSHOPS

1980 – 1990 Ran Afrapix workshops for community organizations, trade unions, and church groups
1987 Ran a workshop on South African photography, Duke University, USA, in collaboration with Alistair Sparks, visiting lecturer at the time
1989 Joint workshop with Santu Mofokeng in conjunction with our exhibition Going Home, about our respective home towns, Tatham Art Gallery and Rhodes University, Journalism Dept.
1994 Ran and devised the first photographic course in Photojournalism at the Durban Institute of Technology, Journalism Department
1995 - 1998 Ran workshops for the Durban Centre of Photography
1995 Ran a workshop on environmental photography for African photographers for Panos Institute
1997, 98, 2001 Visiting lecturer, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Photography Dept, Univ. of Cape Town
2000 –2002 Presented my work to the History of Art Department, University of Cape Town
2000 –2003 Ran introductory and advanced courses in photography
2001 –2003 Workshops for the SDI, street photographers empowerment project, KwaZulu-Natal
2003 Visiting lecturer on documentary photography and film, Creative Lab, Durban
2004 -5 Lecturer at The Centre of Documentary Studies, Duke University
2006 Taught Documentary photography and film Ethnomusicology dept Rhodes University 4th term
2006 Taught modules on photojournalism and environmental reporting, Varsity College Durban
2006 Co-taught a course in advanced documentary filmmaking for the Durban International Film
Festival
2001 –2010 Ran orientation workshops for Masters Public Health students, course co-ordinated by Dr. Di
Cooper of Community Medicine department, UCT
2008-10 Taking Pictures, Telling Stories, extra mural course, CCA, UCT
2008-10 Documentary Photography in Ethnomusicology, History of Art, Photojournalism in CFMS
UCT (undergraduate)
2010 Documentary Photography Michaelis, Documentary Filmaking CFMS, UCT (post graduate)
2011 Documentary Photography course African Studies/Centre for Film and Media Studies (post grad)
2012 -3 Documentary Photography and film course Centre for Film and Media Studies (post grad)

Organisations

1982-1990 Founder member of Afrapix
1990-1996 Founder member of SouthLight
1996- Founder member of South
1986-1993 Vice President of the Southern African Union of Journalists (SAUJ) (representing freelancers)
1996-1998 Chairperson Durban Centre for Photography
2000-2003 Committee member of the South African Centre of Photography
2003-2004 Committee member VANSA, Visual Arts Group, Durban

Awards

Mother Jones Award (essay on the fishing community of Kosi Bay)
Poverty Exhibition (Sangoca), Johannesburg
International Focus on Women and Family Planning, Spain
MALS Program, Duke University award of excellence for final project

Photographic Books

1986 Beyond the Barricades (Aperture), joint editor and participating photographer
1989 Shaken Roots (EDA publishers), the Bushmen of Namibia (text: Megan Biesele)
1995 An End to Waiting (Independent Electoral Commission), South Africa's 1994 elections
1997 Back to the Land (Porcupine Press), a book on the return to land of dispossessed South Africans
1998 Fault Lines (University of California Press), a book on South Africa written by David Goodman
1999 In Search of the San (Porcupine Press), photographs and text on the lives of modern Bushmen
2000 Once We Were Hunters (Mets and Schilt, David Philip), a book on indigenous peoples in Africa
2002 Durban: Impressions of an African City, (Porcupine Press) with David Robbins and Gcina Mhlophe
2002 The Church’s Secret Agent (Press), editor, anthology of South African photography, 1976-1994
2002 Group Portrait, a story of a Zulu family (Tropical Museum, Amsterdam)
2003 Let’s Eat! Children’s book on food, (Oxfam UK)
2004 Travelling Light, personal collection of 25 years photography (UKZN Press)
2006 Moving Spirit, personal journey on spirituality in southern Africa (Double Storey)
2007/9 Then and Now the work of eight photographers curated and edited by Paul Weinberg (Highveld Press)
2010 South African Photography 1950-2010
2011 World Documents
2012 Dear Edward, family footprints (Jacana)

Press and Magazine Publications

From 1985-1998 worked regularly for Der Spiegel and Leadership magazines. Work published in South African and international publications, including: Newsweek, Time, The LA Times, New York Times, Du, The Christian Science Monitor, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, The Sunday Times, The New Scotsman, Geo, National Geographic Children’s magazine, Marie-Claire, Red, Elle, Drum, Pace, Style, Sunday Life, Africa Geographic, Sawubona

Film Titles

1980 Dark City, about Alexandra Township, Johannesburg
1981 Part of the Process, about forced removal of the residents of Pageview
1998 Dancing with God, about the annual pilgrimage of devotees of Shembe Church, a syncretic Zulu Christian movement, KwaZulu-Natal
2004 Trancing in Dreamtime, about Aboriginal and San musicians
2005 Double Vision about the South African diasporic community in North Carolina
2008 The Road to Then and Now, a film with Roger Lucey about South African photography

Photographic Exhibitions and Projects

1982 Co-ordinated and participated in the photographic exhibition for the Culture and Resistance Festival, Gaberone, Botswana
1982 Founder member of Afrapix, a photographic collective
1983-5 Participated in and co-ordinated the Staffrider exhibition with Omar Badsha and Chris van Wyk
1983 Exhibition on communities under threat, with Omar Badsha. Essays submitted to the Carnegie Investigation into Poverty and Development, some exhibited and published in The Cordoned Heart (WW Norton & Co., 1986)
1983 Essay on Mayfair, multiracial Johannesburg suburb, at the History Workshop
1986 Co-ordinated an exhibition on the Bushmen
Participated in Carnegie seminar on social documentary photography
Participant in the CASA exhibition, Amsterdam
1989 Going Home, joint exhibition with Santu Mofokeng on our hometowns, exhibited in Pietermaritzburg and Cape Town
1990 Participated in a Berlin joint exhibition of South African photographers
1992 Beyond the Headlines, co-editor of exhibition in Holland and elsewhere
1993 Through a Lens Darkly (six photographers), South African National Gallery
1994 A Shifting Landscape, curator, Foto Instituut, Netherlands
1995 The Forgotten People, Johannesburg Biennale, Market Gallery
1995 Kosi Bay: The survival of the fishermen, Durban Art Gallery
1996 Footprints in the Sand, exhibition on the San of Southern Africa, South African National Gallery and Museum of Ethnology, Rotterdam (1997)
1998-99 In Search of the San, solo exhibition travelled to Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Germany
1998 Kosi Bay exhibition, Oekemedia festival, Freiburg, Germany
1999 X-scape, co -curator, exhibition co-ordinated by the DCP/NSA Gallery with Nordic Countries
2000 In Search of the San, Venice, Italy
2001 The Fisherfolk of Kosi Bay, Month of Photography, Cape Town
2000 The Moving Spirit, Local History Museum, Durban; Bensusan Museum, Johannesburg (exhibition about religions and faiths)
2001 Once We Were Hunters, travelled to Namibia, Norway (Indigenous Peoples Conference, Tromso Museum)
2001 Great Photographers, curated by John Pilger, Barbican Gallery
2002 Once We Were Hunters and In Search of the San, W. Australian Museum (part of the Survival Concert and Perth Arts Festival)
2002 Once We Were Hunters, Month of Photography, SA Museum, Cape Town
2002 Durban: Impressions of an African City, NSA Gallery, Durban
2002 Group Portrait: South African Families, Tropen Museum, Amsterdam
2003 Fatherhood, essay on a father and his family in South Africa, organized by UNESCO and the HSRC
2004 Travelling Light, PhotoZA, Jo’burg, NSA Gallery, Photographers Gallery, Cape Town
2005 Travelling Light, Reynolds Theatre Duke University, Library, John Carroll University, Cleveland, USA
2006 Moving Spirit, NSA Gallery Durban ; David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg.
2007 Moving Spirit, South African Jewish Museum
2007 Moving Spirit, Noordelicht festival, Holland
2007 Then and Now, Albany Museum (curator and participant)
2008/9 Then and Now, Durban Art Gallery, Duke University, Ghent Festival Belgium, Castle Good Hope
Gallery, Cape Town, PhotoZA, Johannesburg, UNISA Gallery, Pretoria, Monarsh Gallery, Australia
Malmo Gallery, Sweden
2009 Rodney Barnett, A Life’s Work, Michaelis Art Gallery
2009/10 Here and There, Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town, Seippel Gallery, Johannesburg
2010 Documentary Photography, South Africa 1950-2010, Koln Germany, JAG, Johannesburg
2010 Soccer Kultcha (curator), Michaelis Art Gallery
2011 Amabandla amaAfrika – an exhibition of Photographs by Martin West, Centre for African Studies, UCT, June – August
2011 One of 6 photographers featured in World Documents exhibition, Mount Holyoke College of Arts Museum
2012 Dear Edward, family footprints Seippel Bailey Gallery
2013 Co-curator, Umhlaba, exhibition to commemorate 1913 Land Act, SA National Gallery