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Ernest Cole archive: House of Bondage
1966
Photography Legacy Project
South Africa
Townships Mothers fights losing battle to keep son, age nine, from running off to live life of the streets. She tries to assert authority with threats: "what's your future going to be like without an education?" but it is too late. The boy - called Papa - is out of control
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- Title: Ernest Cole archive: House of Bondage
- Date Created: 1966
- Location Created: Gauteng [Transvaal],South Africa
- Subject Keywords: Apartheid,Bantu Education,Beg,Black,Boys,Central Business District (CBD),Children,Children Care,Danger,Discrimination,Education,Forced Removal,Group Areas Act,Orphans,Poverty,Race Relations,Schools,Segregation,Separate Development Act,Street Scenes,Townships,Tsotsi,Unsupervised,Youth
- Type: black and white photgraph
- Rights: © Ernest Cole Families Trust
- External Link: The Photography Legacy Project (PLP)
- Medium: 35 mm black and white negative
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