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Isabelle Martinetti with RFI

How exiled photographer Ernest Cole captured apartheid’s human toll

Photograph of segregational signs at a South-African train station taken by Ernest Cole in the 1960s. © Wikimedia/CC

Ernest Cole's haunting photographs of apartheid shocked the world and yet his own life ended in obscurity. Now, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck has brought Cole's story to the screen in Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. Speaking to RFI, Peck reflects on Cole's groundbreaking work and the exile that tore him apart.

"I remember the first photos. it was a long time ago in Berlin when I was studying," Haitian film director Raoul Peck told RFI.

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