The novelist Tom Sharpe (London, 1928-Llafranc, 2013) produced an extensive but little-known body of photographic work in South Africa at the end of the 1950’s and beginning of the 1960’s. As well as being a freelance photographer, he captured the harsh conditions suffered by black people during apartheid, an activity which, together with his political affiliation, led to him being deported in 1961. A large part of his photographic output was lost, except for a collection of original black and white prints that were sent to the UK by Sharpe’s assistant, and which today make up part of this exhibition.
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