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Duration: 1 hour

British fashion photographer Rankin explores South Africa's rich photographic tradition, discovering how its leading photographers have captured this complex, often turbulent, nation through remarkable images and charting the unique role photography has played in documenting the story and people of this fascinating country.

Through encounters with legendary conflict photographers the Bang Bang Club, documentary photographer David Goldblatt and photojournalist Alf Kumalo amongst others, Rankin goes on a compelling and moving photographic journey to see the nation through their gaze.

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Mon 9 Aug 2010 23:30 BBC HD

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    Photographer Rankin travels to South Africa to find out more about the country that has inspired much of his work.

  • Photo: Rankin and Nontsikelelo Veleko

    Photo: Rankin and Nontsikelelo Veleko

    Rankin talks to Johannesburg-based photographer Nontsikelelo Veleko.

  • Wonderful Africa

    Wonderful Africa

    South Africa in Pictures was part of BBC Four's Wonderful Africa season, a wide ranging season of films that lookied at the arts and culture, life and landscape of Africa in advance of the 2010 World Cup.

    Go to the Wonderful Africa website

Credits

Presenter
Rankin
Participant
David Goldblatt
Participant
The Bang Bang Club
Participant
Alf Kumalo
Participant
Lolo Veleko
Director
Louise Lockwood
Executive Producer
Susanne Curran

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