If you can, please consider pre-ordering Love from Manenberg.
At first, there was a lot I didn’t understand about Manenberg and all the people I would photograph. Now, I have returned to Manenberg for more than 10 years and intend to return for the rest of my life. There are certainly complexities I will never grasp, but I understand much more than I did in 2011. I made thousands of pictures, I asked questions, and I listened. I became a mother. I grew older and more experienced, and I bonded with the families whose stories are reflected in this book. For over a decade, the women of the Lottering, Pietersen, and Adams families have shared their lives, showing the texture, unity, and comfort of Manenberg, their home.
With over 150 reportage images, 80 studio portraits, historical drawings, and intimate dialogue, Love from Manenberg is a moving portrait of three families in Manenberg, a community plagued by violence and haunted histories.
Follow the link in bio to order a signed copy.
There are some special rewards that deliver a book to a family in Manenberg or nearby library in your name. The campaign runs for a limited time.
Thank you to all who have pledged and helped spread the word 🤍
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In August 2013, when I was days away from delivering Errol, my first of three children, and Debbie was pregnant with Zipporah, her third of three children, we started chatting on WhatsApp. Thousands of messages have been exchanged since then. We check in with each other nearly every day. Among the dependable “hi, morning, how r u, nites, sleep well, mwa,” major themes have emerged: The whereabouts and wellbeing of Naomi, our pregnancies, our kids, the failing health of our fathers, Debbie’s work, and Manenberg’s gang wars.
The chat transcript is also crowded with happy birthdays, pictures of our kids and dogs, holiday plans, doctor visits, bad days, and sleepless nights. Debbie sums it up nicely by saying we talk about, “everything, everything. She’ll tell me what’s happening that side and I’ll tell her what’s happening this side.”
A fraction of the text exchanges between Debbie and me are included in the upcoming Love from Manenberg book, providing intimate dialogue and a rare first-person account of life in Manenberg.
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Since 2011 I’ve printed thousands of pictures to leave with the people of Manenberg. For three years before the pandemic, I set up lights and a blue backdrop in Manenberg Library and invited the community to have a portrait made. Everyone who was photographed received a print. The images have been framed and taped to water heaters and cinder block walls. They’ve been cut into collages, tucked between pages of books, and have settled into drawers. They are stored and displayed alongside family photographs made long before I ever stepped foot in Manenberg.
Eighty of the portraits are included in the upcoming Love from Manenberg book, available for pre-order on @kickstarter. Follow the link in my bio to order a signed copy.
Love from Manenberg is a @kehrerverlag fall 2022 title.
There are some special rewards, including options that deliver a book to a family in Manenberg or nearby library.
Thank you to all who have pledged and helped spread the word ❤️ Kickstarter is all or nothing.
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Working in Manenberg for over a decade, I learned I had to acknowledge and contend with the darkness and haunted histories there while staying acutely aware of the community's joy, vibrancy, and comfort.
Pre-orders for Love from Manenberg are available now on @kickstarter. Follow the link in my bio to order a signed copy.
Love from Manenberg is a @kehrerverlag fall 2022 title.
There are some special rewards, including options that deliver a book to a family in Manenberg or nearby library.
Thank you to all who have pledged and helped spread the word ❤️
Kickstarter is all or nothing. 16 days left to pre-order.
Image 1: Table Mountain from Sabie Road. The Indigenous people of South Africa named Table Mountain Huri ǂoaxa (Hoerikwaggo). Many of their descendants live in the Cape Flats. 2020.
Image 2: Chalcey (left) and Chandre practicing a dance they learned on TikTok. 2020.
Image 3: A young man smoking tik (crystal meth). 2012.
Image 4: “Khoikhoi in a Storm,” c. 1700, likely drawn by a Dutch artist attached to the Dutch East India Company. From the collection The Khoikhoi at the Cape of Good Hope: Seventeenth century drawings. Courtesy of the National Library of South Africa.
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Looking at that old picture of Franz and Naomi, I was struck by all that has happened –– and is waiting to happen –– in that house on Cam Road, and in so many of the houses in Manenberg that hold and remember multiple generations. Birth and death. Deeds and words. The vibrant texture of Manenberg is woven inside the rooms of these homes, it floods the streets like the strong rivers whose names they bear, and touches the light, wind, and clouds that perpetually tangle with the mighty Table Mountain.
Pre-orders for Love from Manenberg are available now on @kickstarter. Follow the link in my bio to order a signed copy.
Designed by @bonniebriant Love from Manenberg is a @kehrerverlag title.
There are some special rewards, including options that deliver a book to a family in Manenberg or nearby library.
Image 1: Naomi tying her headscarf. 2017.
Image 2: Naomi and Zenaoh in front of the staircase on Cam Road. 2019.
Image 3: Franz and Naomi in front of the staircase on Cam Road. 1985.
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"Whenever Manenberg makes the news in mainstream media in South Africa—which is near-daily—headlines scream of murder, gangsterism and violence. Rarely are there 'good news' stories. Stories that show that for every stray bullet viciously and unexpectedly ending a life there are hundreds of people simply living, loving, hoping, dreaming, and, at the end of the day, surviving. People like Debbie Lottering...."
–Carl Collison @carl_collison
South African journalist, photographer, and filmmaker.
Pre-orders are now available for Love from Manenberg via @kickstarter. Follow the link in my bio to reserve your copy. There are some very special rewards, including options that deliver a book to Debbie and her family or the Manenberg Library.
Love from Manenberg is a @kehrerverlag title.
Thank you to all who have pledged and helped spread the word ❤️ 22 days left to pre-order.
Image 1: Debbie Lottering at home on Cam Road. 2012.
Image 2: The last of the day's light in Debbie's bedroom. "In this place you can't ask why," Debbie says about her hometown. 2018.
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"Where should we begin the telling of this haunted history of Manenberg and the Cape Town region that enfolds it? There are possibilities...
The greatest strength of Sarah Stacke's deeply humane book is that she, too, sees these complexities."
–John Edwin Mason @johnedwinmason
Professor of African history & history of photography at the University of Virginia and contributing Love from Manenberg author
Pre-orders are now available for Love from Manenberg via @kickstarter. Follow the link in my bio to reserve your copy. There are some very special rewards, including options that deliver a book to a family in Manenberg or nearby library.
Designed by @bonniebriant, Love from Manenberg is a @kehrerverlag title.
Thank you to all who have pledged and helped spread the word ❤️
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"What’s going to happen to the women and children whose stories Sarah Stacke shares in Love from Manenberg? ... These images are a powerful reminder of this community’s cry for social justice, their endless quest for opportunities to build a new future for their children."
–Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Pre-orders are now available for Love from Manenberg via @kickstarter. Follow the link in my bio to reserve your copy. In just three days the campaign is nearly 25% funded. Thank you to all who have pledged and helped spread the word on social media. I am grateful.
There are still some early-bird discounts and special options that deliver a book to a family in Manenberg or nearby library (my very fave reward).
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Pre-orders for Love from Manenerg are now available! After working in Manenberg, South Africa, for more than 10 years I am beyond excited to see this photo book come to fruition. With over 150 reportage images, 80 studio portraits, historical drawings, and intimate dialogue, Love from Manenberg is a moving portrait of three families in Manenberg, a community plagued by gang violence. Notable authors Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, @carl_collison, and @johnedwinmason contribute text essays with invaluable historical and contemporary context.
Designed by @bonniebriant, Love from Manenberg will be published by @kehrerverlag in the fall.
I first photographed Manenberg, a neighborhood of Cape Town, in June 2011. For over a decade, the women of the Lottering, Pietersen, and Adams families have shared their lives, showing the texture, unity, and comfort of Manenberg – their home.
The title of the book reflects the love these women embody, but also describes the relationships I have formed with them. We have become a part of the fabric of each other’s lives.
Please pre-order through the Kickstarter campaign. Link in BIO.
There are still some super rewards left for early backers, including discounts and special limited options that deliver a book to a family in Manenberg or nearby library (my very fave reward).
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