David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt began photographing the structures, people and landscapes of his country in 1948. Rather than recording the more tumultuous aspects of apartheid-era South Africa, Goldblatt instead chose to make subtly complex photographs of everyday life in a rigidly segregated society as it headed towards transformational change. In 1998 he was the first South African to be given a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.