Jong Afrikaner - A Self Portrait - Roelof Petrus van Wyk

Frank and sumptuous portraits of urbanised, engaged Afrikaners who present a challenge to preconceived ideas about Afrikaner identity and values. These ‘new’ Afrikaners negotiate their lives as a minority group in South Africa. Their connection to each other—by kin, marriage, friendship or shared beliefs, preferences and tastes—suggests a cohesion very different from the forced identity of the apartheid years. Van Wyk chose his subjects for their often extraordinary lives that demonstrate a multi-layered and richly varied Afrikaner identity.

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