David Goldblatt's photo at the bottom

Free Range Films made the front page of the newspaper last week.

We’re refering to the front page of the ‘Friday’ arts supplement in the ‘Mail & Guardian’ of 27 Feburary 2009. The bottom photograph on the front page was taken by David Goldblatt on a shoot with Free Range Films for ‘Masupatsela’ Series I.

At the time Goldblatt was working on a series of photographs about HIV and AIDS in the South African landscape. We wanted to do a story on him for the programme to show an unusual and interesting way of dealing with HIV and AIDS. Goldblatt was game and set the director – Tina-Louise Smith – the task of finding various occurrences of the AIDS ribbon around Cape Town.

One Saturday morning Smith set out with the post production assistant, Zukiswa Simulekane, to take photos of the AIDS ribbon in the landscape around Lansdowne, Athlone, Crossroads, Khayelitsha and Hout Bay.

Next, Smith uploaded the images on the backend of our web site for Goldblatt to inspect with his keen eye. He made his selection and the Free Range Films team set off for Khayelitsha with Goldblatt and his camper early one morning. The photo on the ‘Friday’ front page was one of those that came out of the experience.

The newspaper article can be found online.

Below is a video excerpt from the insert we produced on Goldblatt for ‘Masupatsela’. Goldblatt talks briefly about the locations we found for him.