CHILDREN OF THE FLATS - PAUL ALBERTS

Hard cover (cloth). A4 size. Very good condition. Under 1kg

The third of noted photographer's works, this time featuring the 'coloured' children that inhabit the sprawling townships of the Cape Flats.

Reijger Publishers, 1980, 100 pages, 210 x 275mm.

The Cape Flats is a geography that contains impoverished communities in the hinterland of the Westen Cape.Seen as an (re-settlement) coloured population area in the apartheid state, this dormitory or feeder community has (and is) been plagued by a host of social evils: narcotics, gangs and dysfunctionality. The Cape Flats is a major social challenge to our new democracy. Issued to commemorate the United Nations International Year of the Child. Paul Alberts was one of South Africas leading social documentary photographers,