Love from Manenberg looks at life in Manenberg, South Africa, in particular the experiences of women and their children. The work makes room for complex narratives pushed aside by the media and shows the ways families persevere and prosper in a community plagued by gang violence. At only 1.29 square miles, statistics indicate that people living in Manenberg are three times as likely to get murdered than anywhere else in South Africa.
Sarah Stacke first photographed Manenberg, on the Cape Flats of Cape Town, in June 2011. For over a decade, the women of the Lottering, Pietersen, and Adams families have shared their lives, revealing the texture, unity, and comfort of their home.
Featuring over 150 reportage images, 80 studio portraits, historical drawings, and intimate dialogue, Love from Manenberg is a moving portrait of three families in Manenberg.
Deeply humane . . . the photographs are subtle, insightful, and beautiful to behold.
John Edwin Mason
Published by Kehrer Verlag, 2022
Design by Bonnie Briant
Texts by Carl Collison, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, John Edwin Mason, and Sarah Stacke
Hardcover
8.5 x 11″
256 color images
English and Afrikaans
ISBN: 978-3-96900-084-7