Ernest Cole ”Penny baas, please, baas, I hungry” This plaint is part of nightly scene in the Golden City, as black boys beg from whites. They may be thrown a coin, or… they may get slapped in the face. Joha (...)
”Penny baas, please, baas, I hungry...” This plaint is part of nightly scene in the Golden City, as black boys beg from whites. They may be thrown a coin, or… they may get slapped in the face. Johannesburg. South Africa. © Ernest Cole | Magnum Photos
Ernest Cole A white pocket being picked. Whites are angered if touched by anyone black, but a black hand under the chin is enraging. This man, distracted by his fury, does not realize his back pocket is being (...)
rifled. He is allowed to go his way – till next time. South Africa © Ernest Cole | Magnum Photos
Ernest Cole SOUTH AFRICA. Infant suffers from advanced malnutrition. Like one in every four African children, he died before his first birthday. His father has worked nineteen years for railways. Advanced mal (...)
nutrition. One out of every four African babies die before first birthday in South Africa. Because their fathers earn starvation wages. Half of all black children die before 16. This four month old baby died two weeks after this picture was taken, its father has been working for the railways for 19 years and has 3 other children. [Handwritten note by Ernest Cole, The
Ernest Cole Family Trust] © Ernest Cole | Magnum Photos
Ernest Cole SOUTH AFRICA. Barracks-like buildings are divided into starkly simple rooms with bunk space for twenty men. There are no closets or cupboards, so clothes and boots hang all over. [The miners live t (...)
wenty to a room that measures 18 by 25 feet (6 x 8 metres). © Ernest Cole | Magnum Photos