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Wendy Schwegmann - is a South African photographer renowned for her photojournalism during the apartheid and her documentation of apartheid resistance in the 1980's.
Personal
editSchwegmann was born in South Africa in 1953. She currently resides in London and continues to work as a journalist for Reuters. She lives with her husband, Paul Radford, who is also a journalist. [1]
Career
editAfrapix
editWendy joined a collective photo agency called Afrapix in 1982. Afrapix, made up of photojournalists from throughout South Africa, documented the resistance to the apartheid within the 1980's decade.[2]
Journalism
editPrior to and during her time with Afrapix, Schwegmann was also a freelance journalist for Reuters. She contributed to Staffrider as well, a prominent South African literary magazine.
The Cordoned Heart Series
editWendy Schwegmann was a prime contributor to the book The Cordoned Heart. The book was published in Cape Town, South Africa in 1986 and purposefully accompanied the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa.[3]
References
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Literature
editExternal links
edit- http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/wendy-schwegmann
- http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/safricanphoto/
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