Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (15)
Directed by Raoul Peck

 
THIS powerful and haunting documentary shines a light on the little-known story of Ernest Cole, a South African photographer who was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to the world through his groundbreaking work. 

Written and directed by Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro), it is told through Cole’s eyes, and his own words and writings as narrated by LaKeith Stanfield as Cole. There are no interviews with experts, just his nephew remembering his uncle. 

In 1967 Cole’s book House of Bondage was published when he was just 27 years old. It became one of the most significant photobooks of the 20th century. Banned in South Africa, his work forced Cole to go into exile for the rest of his life, to New York City and Europe, which he spent feeling homesick and unable to return home.