Episode 119: Jillian Edelstein: photography as an art against injustice

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We return with a candid, revealing and inspiring conversation with South African born and London based world photographer Jillian Edelstein. We conversed of the differences between analogue and digital photography, and between photo-journalism and documentarism plus how her unique work for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in her native South Africa is, above all, an attempt to place art against the vile injustice of forgetting. All that plus dignity as a response to tragedy, bravado, fame and unreconstructed faces. With Andre Lopez Turner and Juan Toledo To visit Julia's webpage, click here; to watch the Zoom version of this conversation, here;  and to buy the Book Truth and Lies -published by Granta- about the reconciliation process after the end of Apartheid in South Africa, here