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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Isabelle Martinetti

South African photographer Jo Ractliffe captures imprints of violence

Boys at the shaft, Pomfret Asbestos Mine, 2013, from "The Borderlands" series by South Africa photographer Jo Ractliffe. © Jo Ractliffe / Courtesy Stevenson, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Amsterdam, 2026

Paris – South African photographer Jo Ractliffe's black-and-white images reveal the residues left by apartheid, regional conflict, population displacement and the aftermath of violence. RFI met her in Paris, where a new exhibition draws together work from the past four decades.

The exhibition Out of Place, now showing at the Jeu de Paume, traces moments in time captured by Ractliffe between 1982 and 2026.

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