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‘Sensitive, sexy and surreal’: Japan’s Kyotographie festival

Highlights of this year’s international photography festival in Kyoto include Linder Sterling’s exclamatory collages, a retrospective of groundbreaking Daido Moriyama and a journey though apartheid South Africa with Ernest Cole

The Guardian - UK

Editor's pick: RFI English's standout stories of 2025

In 2025, we reported on war and displacement, culture and climate, power and pushback. Our journalists followed conflicts, questioned politics, unpacked new technologies and listened to people living through change. Some stories were hard reads. Others offered hope, humour or human grit. These are our top picks from the year…

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Best films of 2025 in the UK so far

From a dark and death-haunted classic by Mike Leigh to Tom Cruise’s final highwire stunt and Timothée Chalamet’s brilliant embodiment of Dylan we rewind six months of sensational cinema – in order of their UK release date

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Rashid Lombard: the photographer who documented both resistance and celebration in South Africa

The click of a camera shutter and the improvisation of a jazz saxophone may seem worlds apart. Yet, in the hands of South African photojournalist and cultural organiser Rashid Lombard, they became inseparable instruments of resistance and celebration.

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New on Hulu April 26-May 2: our expert's picks for 7 TV shows and movies coming to Hulu this week

Picks for the best new TV shows and movies on Hulu this week include a trio of iconic franchises getting a spotlight on the streamer.

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Ernest Cole: the South African photographer at the centre of a powerful and heartbreaking film

Ernest Cole is famous for photographing the everyday realities of South Africa’s racist apartheid system. His 1967 book House of Bondage ensured his damning critique of the white minority regime was seen by the world. But its publication sent him into exile and was banned at home.

The Conversation

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found review – the man who turned his camera on apartheid

Raoul Peck offers a lyrical documentary portrait of the late South African photographer who dared to show his country’s racist regime to the world

The Guardian - UK

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Ernest Cole: Lost & Found review – tragic story of fiercely pioneering photographer

Cole was a black South African photographer whose work illuminated the reality of life under apartheid, but Raoul Peck’s excellent documentary unearths a life of exile and homesickness

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Trump calls Zelenskyy a dictator in unparalleled relations rift

Attack follows Ukrainian leader’s claim Trump is in a Russian ‘disinformation bubble’. Plus, first Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb uncovered since 1922

The Guardian - UK

‘Politically, it’s important. It’s important for humanity’: the long-lost civil rights images of Ernest Cole

A new Raoul Peck documentary showcases the recently rediscovered work of the photographer who drew parallels between apartheid South Africa and America’s battle for equality

The Guardian - UK

'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found' might be the most powerful photography film of the year – and now you can watch the trailer

A new documentary about Ernest Cole hits theatres next month featuring some of the most impactful images of the twentieth-century

Digital Camera World

How exiled photographer Ernest Cole captured apartheid’s human toll

Ernest Cole's haunting photographs of apartheid shocked the world and yet his own life ended in obscurity. Now, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck has brought Cole's story to the screen in Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. Speaking to RFI, Peck reflects on Cole's groundbreaking work and the exile that tore him…

Radio France Internationale

'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found' resurrects a once-forgotten anti-apartheid photographer

When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted

The Independent UK

Raoul Peck on his Ernest Cole film: ‘I wanted to give him the total podium’

The director of I Am Not Your Negro focuses on the South African photographer who covered apartheid in his homeland before working in the US

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Evening Standard

Things to do in London this weekend (June 28 – 30)

This weekend there is a new Mexican taco stand, some exceptional photography — and some Jungle from Goldie, just because

Digital Camera World

Ernest Cole's 'House of Bondage' to go on display at The Photographers' Gallery

The groundbreaking body of work of Magnum photographer Ernest Cole will be exhibited this summer at The Photographers' Gallery

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Kayus Bankole of Young Fathers’ cultural highlights

The Scottish-Nigerian musician on taboo-breaking conversations, brutally honest images of apartheid and where to find the best akara falafel wrap

Digital Camera World

'House of Bondage' by Ernest Cole receives major exhibition

Ernest Cole's 'House of Bondage' comprises devastating imagery depicting the Apartheid and racial segragation

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Ernest Cole: South Africa's most famous photobook has been republished after 55 years

Photographer Ernest Cole was born in 1940 in the Pretoria township of Eersterust, just before apartheid was formally introduced in South Africa in 1948.

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