Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (15)

★★★★ Celebrated Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro, Exterminate All the Brutes) stays close to his natural habitat with this Cannes-winning documentary profile of exiled South African photographer Ernest Cole. ~ Irish Independent.

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Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience.

His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27 years old, led him into exile in NYC and Europe for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings.

Raoul Peck recounts his wanderings, his turmoil as an artist and his anger, on a daily basis, at the silence or complicity of the Western world in the face of the horrors of the Apartheid regime.

He also recounts how, in 2017, 60,000 negatives of his work were discovered in the safe of a Swedish bank.

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★★★★★ An inspiring portrait of a forgotten photographer. ~ Financial Times.

★★★★ A tragic story of a fiercely pioneering photographer; Cole was a black South African photographer whose work illuminated the reality of life under apartheid, but Raoul Peck’s excellent documentary unearths a life of exile and homesickness. ~ The Guardian.