Ernest Cole Lost and Found Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Ernest Cole: Lost and Found is a new documentary chronicling the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa, whose early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed to the world Black life under apartheid. Cole fled South Africa in 1966 and lived in exile in the U.S., where he photographed extensively in New York City, as well as the American South, fascinated by the ways this country could be at times so vastly different, and at others eerily similar, to the segregated culture of his homeland. During this period in the US, he published his landmark book of photographs denouncing the apartheid, House of Bondage which, while banned in South Africa, cemented Cole’s place as one of the great photographers of his time at the age of 27. Ernest Cole: Lost and Found is directed by acclaimed doc filmmaker Raoul Peck
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00:00My name is Ernest Cole.
00:04I was born March 21st, 1940 in Pretoria, South Africa.
00:11In the 60s, every day, every hour, despite the dangers, I photographed apartheid without
00:21stopping.
00:31In their gaze, their gestures, I tried to find meaning.
00:38Chronicling misery, injustice, and cruelty had become my every day.
00:45But exposing the truth had a price.
00:50It's called exile.
00:55I thought I discovered a new world, one of liberty and equality.
00:59From New York to the south of the United States, I photographed these bodies, these looks,
01:06caught furtively on the move.
01:08However, a reality dawned on me.
01:13In South Africa, I was afraid to be arrested.
01:17In the United States, I was afraid to be killed, but I never ceased photographing,
01:23even for a single moment.
01:47In the United States, I was afraid to be killed, but I never ceased photographing, even for
01:54a single moment.
01:55In the United States, I was afraid to be killed, but I never ceased photographing, even for
02:00a single moment.
02:01In the United States, I was afraid to be killed, but I never ceased photographing, even for
02:05a single moment.
02:06In the United States, I was afraid to be killed, but I never ceased photographing, even for
02:10a single moment.
02:11In the United States, I was afraid to be killed, but I never ceased photographing, even for
02:15a single moment.