This book is a collection of photographs made between 2009 and 2022. I’m using David Goldblatt’s seminal book, published in 1975, “Some Afrikaners Photographed” as the starting point of a conversation.

Goldblatt’s book shows an Afrikaner nation in the midst of Apartheid. Confronting and deconstructing the superiority complex of the ruling white minority, Goldblatt was stunned by the contradictions of this group of peoples. Kind, resilient, staunchly religious, but oh so racist. These contradictions informed his motivations for looking at the Afrikaner.

I would like to contribute my sentence to this canon.

The book appears to have no author, and the text in the book reads:

“The photographs in this book were made by some Afrikaner person in South Africa. They are glimpses into his world and most of the subjects are other South Africans, but not necessarily Afrikaners…”

I am the offspring. I am some Afrikaner.