David Lurie
<p>Born in Cape Town, Lurie studied (Philosophy, Economics) and taught (Philosophy) at UCT before going to the London School of Economics where he did research and co-edited Millennium, Journal of International studies.</p> <p>Self taught in photography, Lurie began doing documentary projects on a part time basis in 1990, and full time in 1995 following the publication of his book ‘Life in the Liberated Zone’ (Corner house Books, UK).</p> <p>His work has been widely published in magazines in the UK, Europe, US, Australia & SA and has won several awards, including ‘Pictures of the Year’, Nikon (UK), Ford Pro Photo (SA) & Arts Council of Great Britain awards.</p> <p>EXHIBITIONS: ‘South African Photographs’, 1990 (toured UK) ‘Working the Surface of the Earth’, 1990 (Group show) ‘Bitter Harvest’, 1992 (UK, Europe, US, South Africa)<em> Also part of a group show at Portfolio Gallery, London with Omar Badsha & David Goldblatt (1992). ‘Life in the Liberated Zone’, 1993 (UK, Europe, US, South Africa)</em> ‘Crisis in South Africa’s Health Services’, 1994 (UK)<em> ‘After Apartheid: South Africa’s black middle class’, 1995 (US tour, with ‘Life in the Liberated Zone’, commissioned by the Getty Museum, Los Angeles) ‘Struggling to Share the Promised Land’, 2001-2 (UK, Germany, Bahrain, South Africa)</em></p> <p>*Commissioned by Side Gallery, Newcastle. His work was the subject of two ten minute programmes on ‘South Africa Today’, PBS / USA (1991, 1992), produced by Danny Schechter</p>Bitter Harvest
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The working conditions on the fruit farms of South Africa’s Western Cape, documented in 1989.
Life in the Liberated Zone
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The squatter camps of South Africa’s Cape Town, photographed after the apartheid government’s abandonment of the Pass Laws in the late 1980s.