More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Swede | dG1fT3pTOTVUVzZlZFU
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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.
01:21But I never ceased photographing, even for a single moment.
01:47In the United States, I was afraid to be killed, even for a single moment.
01:54In the United States, I was afraid to be killed, even for a single moment.
02:01In the United States, I was afraid to be killed, even for a single moment.
02:07In the United States, I was afraid to be killed, even for a single moment.