Bonne Espérance Gallery will exhibit key works from the career of the father of South African photography, Jürgen Schadeberg. Born in Berlin in 1931, Schadeberg emigrated to South Africa as a teenager and found a job with Drum Magazine, at the time the only publication for Black South Africans. He was a witness to social injustice in South Africa from 1950 to 1964 during the official implementation of apartheid. Following his exile to the UK from 1964 to 1985 he continued to focus on the human condition and the dramatic consequences of crises and social change on the vulnerable and disenfranchised. After his return to South Africa in 1985 he documented the promise of democracy and the birth of the rainbow nation, as well as the fragile condition of a South Africa ravaged by decades of poverty and inequality. Works by Schadeberg are part of the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Tate, The Victoria and Albert and the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Bonne Espérance Gallery is Paris’ only South African gallery and exhibits a wide range of emerging and established South African artists and designers.