David

Goldblatt’s

final

dialogue

with

Fietas

David Goldblatt’s new posthumous exhibition at Johannesburg’s Goodman Gallery is entitled “Fragments of Fietas”. It is a selection of photographs taken by the world-renowned photographic artist over a lifetime of visiting the Johannesburg inner-city suburb and relating to the people who lived there and the community, predominantly Indian, who made it their home. The photographs, taken between 1949 and 2016, document the original community and its forced removal under the barbaric Group Areas Act of apartheid, along with the destruction of the buildings and landmarks that made up the community’s identity, to be replaced by low-cost housing reserved for whites.