“In 1980 I photographed PW Botha, then President of South Africa taking a salute during a military parade at the hallowed shrine of white supremacy; the Voortrekker Monument.”
‘Militarisation’ was my default and perpetual assignment. I sought and documented it, wherever and however. These images are a visual narrative and an archive of the many projects I undertook ‘to shoot back’ with my camera. It was the least I could do and kept me sane in an insane society masked and glossed over by ever-present naked state propaganda. My presentation is the exposure of an extensive, buried, personal archive of photographs taken over a 10 year period, founded on my own survival against a traumatic and brutal military process, and spurred on by my very own catharsis to shoot back against a deeply oppressive military machine.”
Paul Weinberg
“Militarisation’ was a personal theme of mine…Militarisation’ was my default and perpetual assignment.”
“I was fighting back with my camera. It was a time of ‘us’ or ‘them’, the ‘struggle’ for liberation and a state of deep polarisation.”
