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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.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 104 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 104 padlock

Doing the Paperwork: Life in the aftermath of a violent death

David Goldblatt

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

Art & Photography | Issue 40 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 40 padlock

Die Hel

David Goldblatt

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

Art & Photography | Issue 28 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 28 padlock

The Structure of Things Here

David Goldblatt

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

Art & Photography | Issue 17 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 17 padlock

So Far

Nadine Gordimer & David Goldblatt

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

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