David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt was born in London in 1965 and now lives in Bristol. He is the author of The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football.

David Goldblatt on Granta.com

‘If the pressure of their life didn’t kill her it made the fight too hard.’

‘Die Hel is a remote valley in the Swartburg Mountains of the south-western Cape.’

‘In our structures we South Africans tend to declare ourselves quite nakedly, sometimes eloquently, and rarely with dissimulation.’

‘His photographs are a beginning, not a fixed moment.’