Many first witnessed the iniquities of apartheid through the lens of South Africa’s late great photographer David Goldblatt. In Goldblatt: A Documentary (2018), the lens is turned on Goldblatt himself in the final years of his life and work. At 86, after 70 years of image making, Goldblatt’s prolific protest-in-pictures against ongoing inequality and social injustice in South Africa is as determined and relentless as ever. Drawing on Goldblatt’s rich body of photographs and featuring interviews with Nadine Gordimer, Zanele Muholi, and William Kentridge, this film is a meditation on identity, place, and longing, set in South Africa’s ever-shifting landscape. Generously sponsored by Jane P. Watkins, M.P.H. 1979, and the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund.

Offered in conjunction with the exhibition David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive. Exhibition co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Yale University Art Gallery, in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid.