R6105/2 Photograph ‘#3’

Black and white photograph of man wearing a hat, open striped shirt and two watches

#3 by John Liebenberg (Museum Accession number: R6105/2) Image copyright: John Arthur Liebenberg

This photograph shows a man wearing a hat, an open striped shirt and two watches. He is a migrant worker at the Okombone compound in Namibia. This work is from the series ‘Weekends at the Okombone’ by John Liebenberg, a South African photojournalist who worked in Namibia in the 1980s. Black and white photographic print on fiber base paper, collected as part of the Fashioning Africa project.

Creator: John Liebenberg

Title: #3

Place: Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa

Date: 1984