Seabirds, Cape Point, 2018, from the series Signs of Life
2018 · Gelatin silver print
35 × 52 cm (13 13/16 × 20 1/2 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Jo Ractliffe
1961
Cape Town, South Africa
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Jo Ractliffe is a South African photographer whose work engages with landscape, conflict, and the aftermath of war, particularly across southern Africa and Angola. Based in Cape Town, she works primarily in black-and-white photography, building bodies of work that treat specific territories as documents of historical violence and unresolved memory. Her photographs have been shown at major international institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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