and Kumalo, despite warnings, risked a severe beating to take the Mashabela picture. He had tried to sell it to several papers with no success. Hazelhurst splashed the picture across two pages of Drum. Over the years Kumalo photographed and documented many of the historic moments in recent South African history. These include the Treason Trial, the Rivonia Trial, the emergence of Black Consciousness, the Student Uprising of 1976 and the Codesa talks. This was despite numerous periods of detention, arrests and official harassment. His work has appeared in international newspapers like The Observer, The New York Times, New York Post, and the Sunday Independent. Locally, he also worked for Drum magazine and the long-defunct Rand Daily Mail. To assist the upcoming generation of South African photographers, Kumalo opened a photographic school in Diepkloof Soweto in 2002. The school offered nine-month courses designed to train photographers from disadvantaged backgrounds. He died on 21 October 2012. Books Mandela: Echoes of an era / by Kumalo; text by Es'kia Mphahlele, Penguin, 1990, Alf Kumalo: South African Photographer, Itala Vivan and Kumalo, Leonardo arte, Through My Lens: A Photographic Memoir, Kumalo, text by Tanya Farber, 2009, 8115: A Prisoner's Home, Kumalo; text by Zukiswa Wanner, Penguin, 2010, Exhibitions Solo exhibitions 2004 – 59th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City – a collection of his life's work – the exhibition was much acclaimed 2012 - The Struggle Continues - Sibisi Gallery - A collection of photographs of the Soweto Uprising. Exhibition opened on June 16 (Youth Day, South Africa). Group exhibitions 2001 – Soweto – A South African Myth – Photographs from the 1950s (by Alf Khumalo, Ernest Cole and Jürgen Schadeberg). The core of the exhibition is the student uprising of 1976. This includes some of Peter Magubane's work. 2002 – Shooting Resistance: South African Photography 1976 – 1994 – The exhibition documented the period of upheavals that began with the student-led Soweto uprising of 1976 and culminated in the collapse of the apartheid regime and the introduction of democratic elections in 1994. Included were photographs by Kumalo, Jürgen Schadeberg and Peter Magubane. 2006 – Madiba: Public and Private – Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg. Works by photographers Kumalo and Jürgen Schadeberg. Schadeberg's photos are of the public images of Mandela from the 1950s, during the Defiance Campaign and before Mandela's imprisonment, while Kumalo's are of Mandela's private life,