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Paul Weinberg(1956) is a South African born photographer. He is best known as a photojournalist and documentary photographer. He is especially known for his work documenting the contemporary world of the San and Khoi people of the Northern Cape, Namibia and southern Botswana.

Education

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Weinberg was born in Pietermaritzburg. He studied Political Science and Economic History at the University of Natal (B.A. 1978). He got a certificate in photography at Natal Technikon (1978) and studied Arts and Liberal Studies at Duke University (M.A. 2005).

Career

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  • 1978 Natal Witness
  • 1979 Taught photography for one year at the Community Arts Open School
  • 1980 - 82 Set up the Media Centre at the South African Institute of Race Relations
  • 1982 Worked in production for the Interchurch Media Programme, helped establish Afrascope, a community film unit, and Afrapix, a photographic collective and agency
  • Worked on retainer for the Sunday Tribune
  • 1983 - Freelance photographer
  • 1984 Consultant on the film And Now We Have No Land
  • 1988-1993 Worked part-time for Environmental and Development Agency photographing projects in rural environments, exploring ways of communicating with a rural audience with a low level of literacy. Photo editor of New Ground magazine
  • 1994 Official photographer for the Independent Electoral Commission during
  • South Africa's 1994 election period (the book An End to Waiting includes this documentation)
  • 2008 -10 Senior Curator, Centre for Curating the Archive, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT
  • 2011 Senior Curator, Visual Archives, UCT Libraries

Durban Series

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Notable People and Events

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Once We Were Hunters Series

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Dear Edward Series

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In Search of the San Series

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Travelling Light Series

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Moving Spirit

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TEACHING/WORKSHOPS

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  • 1980 – 1990 Ran Afrapix workshops for community organizations, trade unions, and church groups
  • 1987 Ran a workshop on South African photography, Duke University, USA, in collaboration with Alistair Sparks, visiting lecturer at the time
  • 1989 Joint workshop with Santu Mofokeng in conjunction with our exhibition Going Home, about our respective home towns, Tatham Art Gallery and Rhodes University, Journalism Dept.
  • 1994 Ran and devised the first photographic course in Photojournalism at the Durban Institute of Technology, Journalism Department
  • 1995 - 1998 Ran workshops for the Durban Centre of Photography
  • 1995 Ran a workshop on environmental photography for African photographers for Panos Institute
  • 1997, 98, 2001 Visiting lecturer, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Photography Dept, Univ. of Cape Town
  • 2000 –2002 Presented my work to the History of Art Department, University of Cape Town
  • 2000 –2003 Ran introductory and advanced courses in photography
  • 2001 –2003 Workshops for the SDI, street photographers empowerment project, KwaZulu-Natal
  • 2003 Visiting lecturer on documentary photography and film, Creative Lab, Durban
  • 2004 -5 Lecturer at The Centre of Documentary Studies, Duke University
  • 2006 Taught Documentary photography and film Ethnomusicology dept Rhodes University 4th term
  • 2006 Taught modules on photojournalism and environmental reporting, Varsity College Durban
  • 2006 Co-taught a course in advanced documentary filmmaking for the Durban International Film
  • Festival
  • 2001 –2010 Ran orientation workshops for Masters Public Health students, course co-ordinated by Dr. Di
  • Cooper of Community Medicine department, UCT
  • 2008-10 Taking Pictures, Telling Stories, extra mural course, CCA, UCT
  • 2008-10 Documentary Photography in Ethnomusicology, History of Art, Photojournalism in CFMS
  • UCT (undergraduate)
  • 2010 Documentary Photography Michaelis, Documentary Filmaking CFMS, UCT (post graduate)
  • 2011 Documentary Photography course African Studies/Centre for Film and Media Studies (post grad)
  • 2012 -3 Documentary Photography and film course Centre for Film and Media Studies (post grad)

Organisations

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  • 1982-1990 Founder member of Afrapix
  • 1990-1996 Founder member of SouthLight
  • 1996- Founder member of South
  • 1986-1993 Vice President of the Southern African Union of Journalists (SAUJ) (representing freelancers)
  • 1996-1998 Chairperson Durban Centre for Photography
  • 2000-2003 Committee member of the South African Centre of Photography
  • 2003-2004 Committee member VANSA, Visual Arts Group, Durban

Awards

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  • Mother Jones Award (essay on the fishing community of Kosi Bay)
  • Poverty Exhibition (Sangoca), Johannesburg
  • International Focus on Women and Family Planning, Spain
  • MALS Program, Duke University award of excellence for final project


Photographic Books

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  • 1986 Beyond the Barricades (Aperture), joint editor and participating photographer
  • 1989 Shaken Roots (EDA publishers), the Bushmen of Namibia (text: Megan Biesele)
  • 1995 An End to Waiting (Independent Electoral Commission), South Africa's 1994 elections
  • 1997 Back to the Land (Porcupine Press), a book on the return to land of dispossessed South Africans
  • 1998 Fault Lines (University of California Press), a book on South Africa written by David Goodman
  • 1999 In Search of the San (Porcupine Press), photographs and text on the lives of modern Bushmen
  • 2000 Once We Were Hunters (Mets and Schilt, David Philip), a book on indigenous peoples in Africa
  • 2002 Durban: Impressions of an African City, (Porcupine Press) with David Robbins and Gcina Mhlophe
  • 2002 The Church’s Secret Agent (Press), editor, anthology of South African photography, 1976-1994
  • 2002 Group Portrait, a story of a Zulu family (Tropical Museum, Amsterdam)
  • 2003 Let’s Eat! Children’s book on food, (Oxfam UK)
  • 2004 Travelling Light, personal collection of 25 years photography (UKZN Press)
  • 2006 Moving Spirit, personal journey on spirituality in southern Africa (Double Storey)
  • 2007/9 Then and Now the work of eight photographers curated and edited by Paul Weinberg (Highveld Press)
  • 2010 South African Photography 1950-2010
  • 2011 World Documents
  • 2012 Dear Edward, family footprints (Jacana)

Press and Magazine Publications

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From 1985-1998 worked regularly for Der Spiegel and Leadership magazines. Work published in South African and international publications, including: Newsweek, Time, The LA Times, New York Times, Du, The Christian Science Monitor, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, The Sunday Times, The New Scotsman, Geo, National Geographic Children’s magazine, Marie-Claire, Red, Elle, Drum, Pace, Style, Sunday Life, Africa Geographic, Sawubona

Film Titles

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  • 1980 Dark City, about Alexandra Township, Johannesburg
  • 1981 Part of the Process, about forced removal of the residents of Pageview
  • 1998 Dancing with God, about the annual pilgrimage of devotees of Shembe Church, a syncretic Zulu Christian movement, KwaZulu-Natal
  • 2004 Trancing in Dreamtime, about Aboriginal and San musicians
  • 2005 Double Vision about the South African diasporic community in North Carolina
  • 2008 The Road to Then and Now, a film with Roger Lucey about South African photography

Photographic Exhibitions and Projects

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  • 1982 Co-ordinated and participated in the photographic exhibition for the Culture and Resistance Festival, Gaberone, Botswana
  • 1982 Founder member of Afrapix, a photographic collective
  • 1983-5 Participated in and co-ordinated the Staffrider exhibition with Omar Badsha and Chris van Wyk
  • 1983 Exhibition on communities under threat, with Omar Badsha. Essays submitted to the Carnegie Investigation into Poverty and Development, some exhibited and published in The Cordoned Heart (WW Norton & Co., 1986)
  • 1983 Essay on Mayfair, multiracial Johannesburg suburb, at the History Workshop
  • 1986 Co-ordinated an exhibition on the Bushmen
  • Participated in Carnegie seminar on social documentary photography
  • Participant in the CASA exhibition, Amsterdam
  • 1989 Going Home, joint exhibition with Santu Mofokeng on our hometowns, exhibited in Pietermaritzburg and Cape Town
  • 1990 Participated in a Berlin joint exhibition of South African photographers
  • 1992 Beyond the Headlines, co-editor of exhibition in Holland and elsewhere
  • 1993 Through a Lens Darkly (six photographers), South African National Gallery
  • 1994 A Shifting Landscape, curator, Foto Instituut, Netherlands
  • 1995 The Forgotten People, Johannesburg Biennale, Market Gallery
  • 1995 Kosi Bay: The survival of the fishermen, Durban Art Gallery
  • 1996 Footprints in the Sand, exhibition on the San of Southern Africa, South African National Gallery and Museum of Ethnology, Rotterdam (1997)
  • 1998-99 In Search of the San, solo exhibition travelled to Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Germany
  • 1998 Kosi Bay exhibition, Oekemedia festival, Freiburg, Germany
  • 1999 X-scape, co -curator, exhibition co-ordinated by the DCP/NSA Gallery with Nordic Countries
  • 2000 In Search of the San, Venice, Italy
  • 2001 The Fisherfolk of Kosi Bay, Month of Photography, Cape Town
  • 2000 The Moving Spirit, Local History Museum, Durban; Bensusan Museum, Johannesburg (exhibition about religions and faiths)
  • 2001 Once We Were Hunters, travelled to Namibia, Norway (Indigenous Peoples Conference, Tromso Museum)
  • 2001 Great Photographers, curated by John Pilger, Barbican Gallery
  • 2002 Once We Were Hunters and In Search of the San, W. Australian Museum (part of the Survival Concert and Perth Arts Festival)
  • 2002 Once We Were Hunters, Month of Photography, SA Museum, Cape Town
  • 2002 Durban: Impressions of an African City, NSA Gallery, Durban
  • 2002 Group Portrait: South African Families, Tropen Museum, Amsterdam
  • 2003 Fatherhood, essay on a father and his family in South Africa, organized by UNESCO and the HSRC
  • 2004 Travelling Light, PhotoZA, Jo’burg, NSA Gallery, Photographers Gallery, Cape Town
  • 2005 Travelling Light, Reynolds Theatre Duke University, Library, John Carroll University, Cleveland, USA
  • 2006 Moving Spirit, NSA Gallery Durban ; David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg.
  • 2007 Moving Spirit, South African Jewish Museum
  • 2007 Moving Spirit, Noordelicht festival, Holland
  • 2007 Then and Now, Albany Museum (curator and participant)
  • 2008/9 Then and Now, Durban Art Gallery, Duke University, Ghent Festival Belgium, Castle Good Hope
  • Gallery, Cape Town, PhotoZA, Johannesburg, UNISA Gallery, Pretoria, Monarsh Gallery, Australia
  • Malmo Gallery, Sweden
  • 2009 Rodney Barnett, A Life’s Work, Michaelis Art Gallery
  • 2009/10 Here and There, Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town, Seippel Gallery, Johannesburg
  • 2010 Documentary Photography, South Africa 1950-2010, Koln Germany, JAG, Johannesburg
  • 2010 Soccer Kultcha (curator), Michaelis Art Gallery
  • 2011 Amabandla amaAfrika – an exhibition of Photographs by Martin West, Centre for African Studies, UCT, June – August
  • 2011 One of 6 photographers featured in World Documents exhibition, Mount Holyoke College of Arts Museum
  • 2012 Dear Edward, family footprints Seippel Bailey Gallery
  • 2013 Co-curator, Umhlaba, exhibition to commemorate 1913 Land Act, SA National Gallery


See also

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