About the Author

David Goldblatt was born in 1930 in Randfontein, South Africa, the son of Lithuanian-Jewish parents. He became interested in photography in high school, and started his professional career in 1962. Goldblatt's photographs are in the collections of the South African National Gallery, Cape Town; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Ivan Vladislavic is a South African short story writer and novelist. He lives in Johannesburg where he also works as an editor. In the eighties he worked as a fiction and social studies editor at Ravan Press. He was the assistant editor of Staffrider magazine for several years and compiled the commemorative anthology Ten years of Staffrider with Andries Oliphant.