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Paul Weinberg(1956) is a South African born photographer. He is best known as a photojournalist and documentary photographer. He is especially known for his work documenting the contemporary world of the San and Khoi people of the Northern Cape, Namibia and southern Botswana.

Education

Weinberg was born in Pietermaritzburg. He studied Political Science and Economic History at the University of Natal (B.A. 1978). He got a certificate in photography at Natal Technikon (1978) and studied Arts and Liberal Studies at Duke University (M.A. 2005).

Career

• 1978 Natal Witness
• 1979 Taught photography for one year at the Community Arts Open School
• 1980 - 82 Set up the Media Centre at the South African Institute of Race Relations
• 1982 Worked in production for the Interchurch Media Programme, helped establish Afrascope, a community film unit, and Afrapix, a photographic collective and agency
• Worked on retainer for the Sunday Tribune
• 1983 - Freelance photographer
• 1984 Consultant on the film And Now We Have No Land
• 1988-1993 Worked part-time for Environmental and Development Agency photographing projects in rural environments, exploring ways of communicating with a rural audience with a low level of literacy. Photo editor of New Ground magazine
• 1994 Official photographer for the Independent Electoral Commission during
• South Africa's 1994 election period (the book An End to Waiting includes this documentation)
• 2008 -10 Senior Curator, Centre for Curating the Archive, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT
• 2011 Senior Curator, Visual Archives, UCT Libraries

Durban Series

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In Search of the San Series

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TEACHING/WORKSHOPS

• 1980 – 1990 Ran Afrapix workshops for community organizations, trade unions, and church groups
• 1987 Ran a workshop on South African photography, Duke University, USA, in collaboration with Alistair Sparks, visiting lecturer at the time
• 1989 Joint workshop with Santu Mofokeng in conjunction with our exhibition Going Home, about our respective home towns, Tatham Art Gallery and Rhodes University, Journalism Dept.
• 1994 Ran and devised the first photographic course in Photojournalism at the Durban Institute of Technology, Journalism Department
• 1995 - 1998 Ran workshops for the Durban Centre of Photography
• 1995 Ran a workshop on environmental photography for African photographers for Panos Institute
• 1997, 98, 2001 Visiting lecturer, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Photography Dept, Univ. of Cape Town
• 2000 –2002 Presented my work to the History of Art Department, University of Cape Town
• 2000 –2003 Ran introductory and advanced courses in photography
• 2001 –2003 Workshops for the SDI, street photographers empowerment project, KwaZulu-Natal
• 2003 Visiting lecturer on documentary photography and film, Creative Lab, Durban
• 2004 -5 Lecturer at The Centre of Documentary Studies, Duke University
• 2006 Taught Documentary photography and film Ethnomusicology dept Rhodes University 4th term
• 2006 Taught modules on photojournalism and environmental reporting, Varsity College Durban
• 2006 Co-taught a course in advanced documentary filmmaking for the Durban International Film
• Festival
• 2001 –2010 Ran orientation workshops for Masters Public Health students, course co-ordinated by Dr. Di
• Cooper of Community Medicine department, UCT
• 2008-10 Taking Pictures, Telling Stories, extra mural course, CCA, UCT
• 2008-10 Documentary Photography in Ethnomusicology, History of Art, Photojournalism in CFMS
• UCT (undergraduate)
• 2010 Documentary Photography Michaelis, Documentary Filmaking CFMS, UCT (post graduate)
• 2011 Documentary Photography course African Studies/Centre for Film and Media Studies (post grad)
• 2012 -3 Documentary Photography and film course Centre for Film and Media Studies (post grad)

Organisations

• 1982-1990 Founder member of Afrapix
• 1990-1996 Founder member of SouthLight
• 1996- Founder member of South
• 1986-1993 Vice President of the Southern African Union of Journalists (SAUJ) (representing freelancers)
• 1996-1998 Chairperson Durban Centre for Photography
• 2000-2003 Committee member of the South African Centre of Photography
• 2003-2004 Committee member VANSA, Visual Arts Group, Durban

Awards

• Mother Jones Award (essay on the fishing community of Kosi Bay)
• Poverty Exhibition (Sangoca), Johannesburg
• International Focus on Women and Family Planning, Spain
• MALS Program, Duke University award of excellence for final project

Photographic Books

• 1986 Beyond the Barricades (Aperture), joint editor and participating photographer
• 1989 Shaken Roots (EDA publishers), the Bushmen of Namibia (text: Megan Biesele)
• 1995 An End to Waiting (Independent Electoral Commission), South Africa's 1994 elections
• 1997 Back to the Land (Porcupine Press), a book on the return to land of dispossessed South Africans
• 1998 Fault Lines (University of California Press), a book on South Africa written by David Goodman
• 1999 In Search of the San (Porcupine Press), photographs and text on the lives of modern Bushmen
• 2000 Once We Were Hunters (Mets and Schilt, David Philip), a book on indigenous peoples in Africa
• 2002 Durban: Impressions of an African City, (Porcupine Press) with David Robbins and Gcina Mhlophe
• 2002 The Church’s Secret Agent (Press), editor, anthology of South African photography, 1976-1994
• 2002 Group Portrait, a story of a Zulu family (Tropical Museum, Amsterdam)
• 2003 Let’s Eat! Children’s book on food, (Oxfam UK)
• 2004 Travelling Light, personal collection of 25 years photography (UKZN Press)
• 2006 Moving Spirit, personal journey on spirituality in southern Africa (Double Storey)
• 2007/9 Then and Now the work of eight photographers curated and edited by Paul Weinberg (Highveld Press)
• 2010 South African Photography 1950-2010
• 2011 World Documents
• 2012 Dear Edward, family footprints (Jacana)

Press and Magazine Publications

From 1985-1998 worked regularly for Der Spiegel and Leadership magazines. Work published in South African and international publications, including: Newsweek, Time, The LA Times, New York Times, Du, The Christian Science Monitor, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, The Sunday Times, The New Scotsman, Geo, National Geographic Children’s magazine, Marie-Claire, Red, Elle, Drum, Pace, Style, Sunday Life, Africa Geographic, Sawubona

Film Titles

• 1980 Dark City, about Alexandra Township, Johannesburg
• 1981 Part of the Process, about forced removal of the residents of Pageview
• 1998 Dancing with God, about the annual pilgrimage of devotees of Shembe Church, a syncretic Zulu Christian movement, KwaZulu-Natal
• 2004 Trancing in Dreamtime, about Aboriginal and San musicians
• 2005 Double Vision about the South African diasporic community in North Carolina
• 2008 The Road to Then and Now, a film with Roger Lucey about South African photography

Photographic Exhibitions and Projects

• 1982 Co-ordinated and participated in the photographic exhibition for the Culture and Resistance Festival, Gaberone, Botswana
• 1982 Founder member of Afrapix, a photographic collective
• 1983-5 Participated in and co-ordinated the Staffrider exhibition with Omar Badsha and Chris van Wyk
• 1983 Exhibition on communities under threat, with Omar Badsha. Essays submitted to the Carnegie Investigation into Poverty and Development, some exhibited and published in The Cordoned Heart (WW Norton & Co., 1986)
• 1983 Essay on Mayfair, multiracial Johannesburg suburb, at the History Workshop
• 1986 Co-ordinated an exhibition on the Bushmen
• Participated in Carnegie seminar on social documentary photography
• Participant in the CASA exhibition, Amsterdam
• 1989 Going Home, joint exhibition with Santu Mofokeng on our hometowns, exhibited in Pietermaritzburg and Cape Town
• 1990 Participated in a Berlin joint exhibition of South African photographers
• 1992 Beyond the Headlines, co-editor of exhibition in Holland and elsewhere
• 1993 Through a Lens Darkly (six photographers), South African National Gallery
• 1994 A Shifting Landscape, curator, Foto Instituut, Netherlands
• 1995 The Forgotten People, Johannesburg Biennale, Market Gallery
• 1995 Kosi Bay: The survival of the fishermen, Durban Art Gallery
• 1996 Footprints in the Sand, exhibition on the San of Southern Africa, South African National Gallery and Museum of Ethnology, Rotterdam (1997)
• 1998-99 In Search of the San, solo exhibition travelled to Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Germany
• 1998 Kosi Bay exhibition, Oekemedia festival, Freiburg, Germany
• 1999 X-scape, co -curator, exhibition co-ordinated by the DCP/NSA Gallery with Nordic Countries
• 2000 In Search of the San, Venice, Italy
• 2001 The Fisherfolk of Kosi Bay, Month of Photography, Cape Town
• 2000 The Moving Spirit, Local History Museum, Durban; Bensusan Museum, Johannesburg (exhibition about religions and faiths)
• 2001 Once We Were Hunters, travelled to Namibia, Norway (Indigenous Peoples Conference, Tromso Museum)
• 2001 Great Photographers, curated by John Pilger, Barbican Gallery
• 2002 Once We Were Hunters and In Search of the San, W. Australian Museum (part of the Survival Concert and Perth Arts Festival)
• 2002 Once We Were Hunters, Month of Photography, SA Museum, Cape Town
• 2002 Durban: Impressions of an African City, NSA Gallery, Durban
• 2002 Group Portrait: South African Families, Tropen Museum, Amsterdam
• 2003 Fatherhood, essay on a father and his family in South Africa, organized by UNESCO and the HSRC
• 2004 Travelling Light, PhotoZA, Jo’burg, NSA Gallery, Photographers Gallery, Cape Town
• 2005 Travelling Light, Reynolds Theatre Duke University, Library, John Carroll University, Cleveland, USA
• 2006 Moving Spirit, NSA Gallery Durban ; David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg.
• 2007 Moving Spirit, South African Jewish Museum
• 2007 Moving Spirit, Noordelicht festival, Holland
• 2007 Then and Now, Albany Museum (curator and participant)
• 2008/9 Then and Now, Durban Art Gallery, Duke University, Ghent Festival Belgium, Castle Good Hope
• Gallery, Cape Town, PhotoZA, Johannesburg, UNISA Gallery, Pretoria, Monarsh Gallery, Australia
• Malmo Gallery, Sweden
• 2009 Rodney Barnett, A Life’s Work, Michaelis Art Gallery
• 2009/10 Here and There, Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town, Seippel Gallery, Johannesburg
• 2010 Documentary Photography, South Africa 1950-2010, Koln Germany, JAG, Johannesburg
• 2010 Soccer Kultcha (curator), Michaelis Art Gallery
• 2011 Amabandla amaAfrika – an exhibition of Photographs by Martin West, Centre for African Studies, UCT, June – August
• 2011 One of 6 photographers featured in World Documents exhibition, Mount Holyoke College of Arts Museum
• 2012 Dear Edward, family footprints Seippel Bailey Gallery
• 2013 Co-curator, Umhlaba, exhibition to commemorate 1913 Land Act, SA National Gallery

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