KNYGA Robin Bernstein Mapalakata

Robin Bernstein’s debut photo book Mapalakata engages with landscape via a visual reassessment of a key historical, geological and geographical region in Southern Africa. The title, meaning ‘visitors’, is drawn from oral histories and was used to describe traders from the East who moved through Southern Africa before European colonisation. Robin Bernstein, first travelled to and photographed along the Mpumalanga Escarpment, a dramatic part of South Africa’s Great Escarpment, in 2019. Mapalakata explores this surrounding landscape and offers a visual reassessment of a key historical and geographical region in Southern Africa. The book includes written contributions from South African writers Lidudumalingani and Desmond Latham.