Mandela's acclaimed photographer
Mandela's acclaimed photographer
February 5, 2014
© Jürgen Schadeberg, Nelson Mandela during the Treason Trial, Pretoria, 1958
Jürgen Schadeberg
Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013) counts among the most influential personalities of the past century. Leica photographer Jürgen Schadeberg accompanied the former South African president and anti-apartheid hero for more than sixty years. Schadeberg, born in Berlin in 1931, emigrated to South Africa in 1950 where he became a renowned chronicler of his country.
During an interview in LFI 4/2008, the photographer shared an anecdote from his early job-hunting days in Johannesburg: "The picture editor (of newspaper The Star) looked at me, looked at my Leica and said, 'If you are coming to South Africa with that miniature camera you haven’t got a hope in hell of ever getting a job."
In addition to Schadeberg's works, the gallery will be showing the series African Crossings by Friederike von Stackelberg.
For further information visit Flo Peters Galerie, Jürgen Schadeberg, Friederike von Stackelberg
© Jürgen Schadeberg, Nelson Mandela during the Treason Trial, Pretoria, 1958
© Jürgen Schadeberg, Nelson Mandela in his Cell, Revisit, Robben Island, 1994
© Jürgen Schadeberg, Nelson Mandela during the Defiance Trial, Johannesburg, 1952
© Friederike von Stackelberg, Shelter from the Sun, Ethiopia, 2013
© Friederike von Stackelberg, St. Georgis, Ethiopia, 2013