LEAVING YEOVILLE
Many people in Johannesburg have lived, or at least spent time, in Yeoville, even if shortly. A port of entry into the city, a neighborhood of mobility and migration, the neighborhood also became, for a short but intense period of its history (late 1980s- early 1990s), a key cultural and political hub as the apartheid regime was crumbling. This means many people arrived, but also left Yeoville and kept memories of this period in their own lives. This series of portraits of people having left Yeoville captures some of these memories, grounded in specific places, as a significant element to understand what Yeoville might have been in the past, but also what Yeoville is today, in the minds of many residents of Johannesburg.
A project facilitated by Sophie Didier & Ophélie Arraouazaki
Photograph of Clive Chipkin by Lerato Maduna