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COLORFUL HEARTS FILLED WITH RHYTHM AND RAINBOWS, NO ONE CAN DANCE THE WAY YOU DO (BOOK), 2017.
Louisa Menke.

Published by FORGOTTEN FANCLUBS & Blam studio, edition 1/65.

                                                       

I took these photos during my work on a documentary in Johannesburg in 2016.



























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The city of Johannesburg is spread wide over a huge amount of land, encompassing all its people, houses, buildings, mining factories, business districts, and empty spaces.

Skating through felt as if I was looking at some sort of vast unsolved puzzle where every piece held a different value.

The city was built upon the foundation of racial segregation, which was first laid on either side of the gold mining belt—
with the black population in the south and the whites to the north.

Blacks were then further separated from other non-white areas, such as those made up of mixed race or of Indian descent.

The final separation was between the linguistic groups of the blacks themselves.

Today segregation is built on wealth. When the apartheid regime fell, the "white" part of town fell with it, and there were those who stayed and watched as the area slowly transformed.

Today the center of Johannesburg is mostly black and houses immigrants from other parts of Africa. The area is considered to be unsafe, so the government is pursuing a plan to build a new and "safe" city center somewhere else (in another part of town), adding yet another piece to the puzzle.        



LINK TO DOCUMENTARY