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Homelands

Life on the edge of the South African dream

introduction by Pieter de Vos

foreword by Leilani Farha

Publisher
Daylight Books
Initial publish date
Jun 2019
Category
Photoessays & Documentaries, Republic of South Africa, Social Classes
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781942084624
    Publish Date
    Jun 2019
    List Price
    $68.95

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HOMELANDS explores life in South Africa through the experiences of Donald Banda, who resides in an informal settlement in Pretoria. Photographs and first-person accounts reveal the complexities of social and economic inclusion in contemporary South Africa. They also speak to the universal human desire for belonging. As Donald says, “There is no place like home. But if home no longer feels like home, we are lost.”

About the authors

Pieter de Vos' profile page

Leilani Farha is the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing and the Global Director of The Shift. Her work is animated by the principle that housing is a social good, not a commodity. Leilani has helped develop global human rights standards on the right to housing, including through her topical reports on homelessness, the financialization of housing, informal settlements, rights-based housing strategies, and the first UN Guidelines for the implementation of the right to housing. She is the central character in the documentary PUSH regarding the financialization of housing, which has been screening around the world. Leilani launched The Shift in 2017 with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the organization United Cities and Local Government.

 

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Editorial Reviews

“De Vos’s black-and-white photography generates a sense of unity within the cacophony of the makeshift dwellings and conflicting colors of the temporary community. His is a wonderful selection of portraits, landscapes and views from the pulse of daily life... De Vos’s point of view is intimate without being aggressive." - ZEKE Magazine, Spring 2019

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