Text engl. - As a researcher for the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, Mofokeng collected and scanned elegant portraits originally commissioned by black South Africans. He transformed the images into slides, adding texts with biographical information and posing provocative questions about the nature of historical archives. The Black Photo Album was published in 2013 by The Walther Collection/Steidl and has been presented throughout the world, most recently in Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive at the collection's museum in Neu-Ulm, Germany. - Santu Mofokeng was born in 1956 in Johannesburg, where he currently lives and works. A freelance photojournalist and member of the Afrapix Collective in the 1980s, Mofokeng won the Ernest Cole Scholarship to study at the International Center of Photography in 1991. Mofokeng's photography has been featured in international exhibitions including Appropriated Landscapes at The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany (2011) and The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life at the International Center of Photography, New York (2012). His first retrospective, Chasing Shadows: Thirty Years of Photographic Essays, opened in 2011 at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, and traveled to Norway, Switzerland, Belgium, and South Africa. Mofokeng represented Germany at the 2013 Venice Biennale. (Pressetext).