Ian Berry’s Sharpeville images exposed apartheid violence to the world

Ian Berry took the only photographs of the Sharpeville Massacre as it happened in South Africa on the 21 March 1960. In this article Kylie Thomas writes about how these images exposed the brutal violence of the apartheid regime and contributed to the formation of the global anti-apartheid movement. 

Photographer Ian Berry, who is best known for his photographs made at Sharpeville in 1960, died on 13 September 2026. In this article published in The Conversation, RHL researcher Kylie Thomas draws on her recent book, Afterimages of Apartheid, and argues for understanding the significance of these images in the struggle against impunity in the aftermath of apartheid. 

Read the full story here: https://theconversation.com/ian-berrys-sharpeville-images-exposed-apartheid-violence-to-the-world-292479

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