Creative Work of the Week: Iziko Slave Lodge Museum uncovers hidden South African history
Geometry Global Cape Town has run away with this week’s Creative Work of the Week title for its profound and beautiful ‘Slave Calendar’ produced for the Iziko Slave Lodge Museum.
The document, which features images shot by award-winning photographer David Prior, creatively draws attention to the 71,000 slaves who landed at the Cape of Good Hope between 1653 and 1856 and were stripped of everything, including their names with many simply renamed after the calendar month in which they arrived.
To this day, the region has thousands of people with surnames like Junies, Augustus, September and November, and very few know why.
The limited edition Slave Calendar connects the dots by tying each month to an emotive black-and-white portrait of a slave descendant carrying that month’s name – from John January to Regina December.
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