Ernest Cole: Lost and Found | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Swede | dG1fT3pTOTVUVzZlZFU

Transcript

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.