Life in the Liberated Zone

Life in the Liberated ZoneLife in the Liberated Zone is a photographic series by David Lurie, documenting the sprawling squatter settlements that emerged on the outskirts of Cape Town in the late 1980s, following the apartheid governments abandonment of the restrictive Pass Laws. Pass Laws were strict requirements which meant non whites had to carry documents authorising their presence in restricted areas, restricting movement and enforcing racial segregation. Shot in the

photography

with texts by Julia Kristeva and Juan Goytisolo

and it was used to demonstrate empathy with those outside the establishment and to provide glimpses into the daily lives of women everywhere

self-absorbed and secretive

print and environmental designs by Gere Kavanaugh and Deborah Sussman

Drawn with thousands of parallel lines

These works were often an amalgamation of historic references with private narratives and forms part of a process of investigating pathologies and deconstructing the past

field notebooks

Small blue ink line on the spine

they meet inventors and academics

All but unknown even in his home country of Côte d’Ivoire

they forged an electrifying personal and professional partnership