South Africans David Goldblatt and Barry Lategan are among 22 photographers from around the world who will be honoured at the Royal Photographic Society’s prestigious annual awards ceremony in London on Thursday.
Goldblatt and Lategan will be awarded honorary fellowships for their “significant individual achievements and contributions to the art and science of photography.”
About Goldblatt:
Born in Randfontein in 1930, Goldblatt has been documenting the changing political landscape of South Africa for more than five decades. His retrospective exhibition, David Goldblatt 51 Years, has been seen in New York, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Lisbon, Oxford, Brussels, Munich and Johannesburg.
He has won the most prestigious photography prize in the world, The Hasselblad Photography Award. He is the only South African artist to win this prize, and received it at an award ceremony on the 25th November 2006 in Goteberg, Sweden.
About Lategan:
South African born Barry Lategan came to England to study at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, during which time he was called to national service in Germany, where his interest in photography developed.
He opened a studio in London in 1965, where he took the first photographs of Twiggy, before moving to New York to live and work between 1977 and 1990.
Lategan’s photographs have been published worldwide in Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire and Life.
Source: SouthAfrica.info
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