Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Photographer Ernest Cole's pictures went around the world at the end of the 1960s. In his groundbreaking photo book ‘House of Bondage’, the South African was the first to capture everyday life under apartheid, making history in the process. But his own fate was lost from view: Ernest Cole had to go into exile and from then on documented racial discrimination in the USA - to little acclaim. A few years ago, 60,000 lost negatives turned up in a Swedish bank safe, whereupon Raoul Peck set to work to present us with the impressive photographs of an almost forgotten exceptional talent: After the Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck once again lifts a forgotten personality from the ruins of history in a gripping collage and wins the prize for best documentary film in Cannes.