Ken Oosterbroek exhibition walkabout

Join for Ken Oosterbroek exhibition walkabout with curator Dudu Madonsela.

Visit the Bensusan Photographic Museum, library and camera obscura.

Sunday, 21 July - 10am. Museum Africa, Newtown

Exhibition walkabout and duration: aprox 2 hours. Free entrance.

Park on Mary Fitzgerald Square
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Or at Newtown Junction Mall if you prefer covered parking
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## Ken Oosterbroek’s “photographs will bring awareness to the importance of photography in the creation of our collective historical record” says curator Dudu Madonsela

A new exhibition highlighting the work of the late photojournalist Ken Oosterbroek has opened at Museum Africa in Newtown, Johannesburg.
The exhibition, Ken Oosterbroek Killed in Action, explores the life and legacy of Oosterbroek who was part of a group of photojournalists, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich and João Silva nicknamed the “Bang Bang Club”. They documented South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.

Oosterbroek was named South African press photographer of the year three times in 1989, 1991 and 1994. He also won 2nd prize in the 1993 World Press Photo awards in the stories and general news category.
On 18 April 1994, just nine days before South Africa’s historic first democratic election, Oosterbroek was shot and killed while on assignment in Thokoza, east of Johannesburg.

Dudu Madonsela, head curator at the Bensusan Museum of Photography​ who curated this exhibition, said: “We wanted this exhibition to coincide with the 30th anniversary of South Africa’s democracy as well as to honour Ken who lost his life documenting an important part of our history 30 years ago.”

https://www.goodthingsguy.com/people/exhibition-honours-work-of-late-bang-bang-club-photojournalist/