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Interior Relations

Title: Interior Relations

Photographer/s: Ian van Coller

Contributor/s: Amy Thompson: Book binding and letterpress

Date of publication: 2010

Place of publication: Bozeman, Montana

Dimensions: 17″x21″

Edition size: 30 + 5AP’s

Type of binding: Cloth, Noble

Number of pages: 31

Type of paper: Museum Rag

Number of pictures: 27

Type of printing: Inkjet

Printer: Epson 9800 Pro Stylus

Publisher: Doring Press

Designer: Ian van Coller

Language: English

ISBN: 978-0-9845001-0-9

Category: Artist Book

Price: $900

Summary:
Interior Relations: Portraits of Domestic Workers in South Africa
This project focuses on the intersection of post-Apartheid black and white identities via photographic portraiture of black domestic workers who work in homes owned by white South Africans. Though separated by an enormous gulf of inequality, the domestics and their employers are wedded by an intensely intimate, personal, and awkward interdependence. Interior Relations explores the discrepancies between the country’s public democratic ideals and the ongoing racial and economic inequality that affects a large majority of black South Africans. The women were dressed in their favourite clothes and photographed in the homes of their employers.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 22/09/1970 Johannesburg, South Africa

Website: www.ianvancoller.com

Donated by: Ian van Coller

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Published on July 9, 2010 5:02 pm.
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