Secret Histories | The Real South Africa, as Seen by the Man They Called “Kitty”

Photo: S. J. Moodley, [Boy with sunglasses in a chair], ca. 1978.

South African photographer Singarum “Kitty” Jeevaruthnam Moodley was born into an Indian family in the province now known as KwaZulu-Natal in 1922. At the age of 35, he left his job working as a machinist in a shoe factory to establish…