Ernest Cole photographe

Le livre

Ernest Cole, photographe sud-africain, fut le premier à exposer au monde entier les horreurs de l?apartheid. Ayant fui l?Afrique du Sud en 1966, il publie à New York House of Bondage alors qu?il n?a que vingt-sept ans. Son livre, témoignage de l?apartheid, est interdit dans son pays. Apatride, Ernest Cole vit à New York une existence solitaire. Il photographie ses contemporains, observe la ville mais n?y trouvera jamais ses repères. Il meurt en 1990, abandonné de tous, sans avoir revu son pays. En 2017, plus de 60 000 de ses négatifs et photos, pour la plupart inédits, sont mystérieusement « découverts » dans les coffres d?une banque suédoise. Raoul Peck raconte les errances, les tourments d?artiste et la colère d?Ernest Cole face au silence ou à la complicité du monde occidental devant les horreurs du régime de l?apartheid et de la ségrégation raciale aux États-Unis.South African photographer Ernest Cole was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to the world. Having fled South Africa in 1966, he published House of Bondage in New York at the age of twenty-seven. His book, a testimony to apartheid, was banned in his own country. A stateless man, Ernest Cole lived a solitary existence in New York. He photographed his contemporaries and observed the city, but never found his bearings there. He died in 1990, abandoned by all, without ever seeing his homeland again. In 2017, over 60,000 of his mostly unpublished negatives and photos were mysteriously ?discovered? in the vaults of a Swedish bank. Raoul Peck recounts Ernest Cole's wanderings, torments as an artist and anger at the silence or complicity of the Western world in the face of the horrors of apartheid and racial segregation in the United States.