Photobook

Review:

I

Carry

Her

Photo

With

Me

by

Lindokuhle

Sobekwa

I Carry Her Photo With Me is the story of Ziyanda, the photographer’s late sister. It’s the story of Sobekwa himself as he searches amidst his sorrow and guilt to piece together who she might have been, and it’s the story of South Africa itself.

The book starts with a group photo of Sobekwa’s family, the face of his sister a blank white space where his mother has cut it out.

The memories Sobekwa had of her are sketchy, but she was tough, a rebel, that much he can remember. She was brought up by her grandmother in the countryside, and then she disappeared from his life after the 6-year-old Sobekwas broke his back in a hit-and-run accident.