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Caroline Suzman's powerful first book of photography, This Land is Ours, is a moving study of what is still the most divisive fault line in South African life today: land. Her vignettes of rural life and portraits reflect on the relationship between land, heritage and violence and the photographs inspire a deeper awareness of the human cost of land ownership in South Africa. Journeying into the heart of the communities behind the newspaper headlines, Suzman's approach to her subjects is the result of over a decade of travel around rural South Africa. This Land is Ours is a meditation on love and loss, on land as a battleground of the human spirit. The book includes dispatches by journalist Sean Christie, winner of the 2010 Caxton Press Writer of the Year Award and recipient of the 2011 Open Society fellowship in foreign policy, and essays by Richard Jurgens, a writer, editor and former exile. Rory Bester, head of history of art at Wits University, and co-curator of the Rise and Fall of Apartheid exhibition, has contributed a reflective essay on questions of photography, land and representation.

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After completing a course at the market photography workshop in Johannesburg, Caroline Suzman studied photography at Rhodes University. In 1995, she completed an internship at the Mail & Guardian where she then worked as a freelancer, and later at the Sunday Times and The Star newspapers. Caroline's work has been featured in local and international media, including Marie Claire, the Boston Globe, the Sunday Telegraph, Monocle, and the Guardian. Her work appears in TAXI-008 (David Krut, 2003), Moving in Time: Images of Life in a Democratic South Africa (KMM Review Publishing, 2004), and Women by Women: 50 years of women's photography in South Africa (Wits University Press, 2006). Group exhibitions include Lines of Sight: Perspectives in South African Photography (Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 1999), Bonani Africa (Museum Africa, Johannesburg, 2002) and Umhlaba 1913-2013: Commemorating the 1913 Land Act (Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 2013 and Wits Art Museum, 2014). Caroline has a special interest in portraiture. Her first major solo exhibition, Crossing Over: Portraits from Israel and Gaza (Studio 23, Johannesburg, 2009), which featured photographs taken during an Israeli incursion into Gaza, reflected on issues of identity and shared humanity in conflict zones. This Land is Ours is Caroline's first book.

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