When Anne Rearick first visited South Africa on holiday in 2004, she felt deeply uncomfortable. “Apartheid still felt really present,” she says. “As a white person I hated it, I didn’t want to be a part of it.”

Days before she left, a woman who worked in Rearick’s accommodation invited her to visit Langa, a township in which she lives, in a suburb of Cape Town. Rearick spent the day walking around and making portraits, and, upon developing her prints back at home in the US, she knew she had to return.

“Seeing those images, I thought about survival,” says Rearick. “All of my work has been about survival in some ways. In South Africa, it was about physical and economic survival.”

Clementine de la Feronniere, 2016

10.5 × 12 in

ISBN 978-2-9542-2665-1