Between the cracks covers the remarkable photographic journey of Paul Weinberg across southern African cultural, social and environmental landscapes from the 1970s to the contemporary. Weinberg’s career began after having been conscripted into the apartheid regime’s army. His camera became a weapon, ‘taking sides’ against the very regime which he had been forced to serve. But Between the cracks covers far more than just the ‘witnessing’ of political protest.
As Jacob Dlamini suggests in his essay on Weinberg, many of the images consummately convey the seemingly paradoxical ‘ordinariness’ or ‘banality’ of apartheid life. Between the cracks traverses a range of Weinberg’s photographic interests from the political to the social to the personal. It includes his iconic anti-apartheid photography, his sociological work with the San, his transcultural observations, his interests in landscape and his celebrated documentary work for the Independent Electoral Commission in 1994.
