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  1. When Tears Don’t Matter
  2. Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain
  3. Noah’s Ark in a Sandstorm - Part I
  4. Noah’s Ark in a Sandstorm - Part II
  5. Dog Days
  6. Prix Pictet
  7. Ndebele
  8. African Canvas
  9. Imazighen
  10. South Africa 1969-1983
  11. South West Africa (Namibia) 1978-1983
  12. Maya Angelou
  13. La Ciociaria
  14. Portraits

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  • Dust on the Wind

    Margaret Courtney-Clarke - Dust on the Wind
    Francisco Carolinum Photography, OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH, Linz, Austria 2024


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Dust on the Wind

"DUST ON THE WIND" catalogue
Margaret Courtney-Clarke ist eine mehrfach preisgekrönte namibische Fotografin. Die Ausstellung im Francisco Carolinum präsentiert Werke aus über 40 Jahren Arbeit und zeigt, was die Künstlerin erstmals in den Fokus der Öffentlichkeit gerückt hat: süd-, west- und nordafrikanische indigene Frauen in ihrer häuslichen Umgebung.


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  • Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain

    "Long Reign". Ferdinand Matsuib’s dog ǂOebes. For fear of frequent animal poaching, Satan the donkey is caged until sunset when she will be released into the veld to graze overnight.

Award-winning series “Caged”
Lens Culture Critic’s Choice 2022 | Please view critics comments here

When Tears Don’t Matter

When Tears Don’t Matter

Texts by Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Kileni A. Fernando, Rob J. Gordon and Virginia MacKenny
Book design by Margaret Courtney-Clarke and Holger Feroudj / Steidl Design
240 pages
12 × 9.6 in. / 30.5 × 24.4 cm
98 black-and-white and 68 color photographs
Tritone and four-color process
Clothbound hardcover with a tipped-in photograph
ISBN 978-3-95829-877-4


Steidl Catalog (PDF, 600 KB)
www.steidl.de


Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain

Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain

Text: Margaret Courtney-Clarke
Foreword: David Goldblatt
Essay: Sean O’Toole
200 pages
14.3 × 10.2 in. / 36.4 × 26 cm
11 black-and-white and 109 color photographs
Four-color process
Clothbound hardcover
ISBN 978-3-95829-253-6


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Desert Narratives

  • Desert Narratives

    The collector edition box includes 10 archival prints from Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain.
    The portfolio is printed in an edition of 5 examples plus 2 artist’s proofs for the artist and curator.
    Each portfolio is numbered and signed by the artist with a certificate of authentication.
    Distributed by SMAC Gallery, South Africa


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SELECTED PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
2023. "Not the kind of life a human being should live". VEZA.
2023. Namibia's Sanitation Crisis. Pulitzer Center.
2023. Namibian Government Takes Steps To Address Dire Sanitation Conditions Exposed in CCIJ Investigation. Pulitzer Center.
2023. How Namibia’s sanitation crisis is endangering its people, its future and basic human rights. Daily Maverick.
Keshia Africa. 2021. Celebrating a special friendship. Weekend Argus Sunday.
Nicola Daniels. 2021. Don`t miss Maya Angelou exhibition in Cape Town. Cape Times.
Barrett, D & Riley, K. 2020. Seven groundbreaking female photographers – in pictures. The Guardian.
Kallianiotis, N.J. Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain. LensCulture.
The Guardian. 2019. Prix Pictet 2019 shortlist – photo essay. The Guardian.
The Namibian. 2018. ‘Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain’ launched at Swakop. The Namibian.
Smyth, D. 2018. The British Journal of Photography. Photo London: the 2018 Kraszna-Krausz shortlist. 1854 Media.
Levanta News. 2018. Camogli: P46 Gallery, inaugurata la mostra di Margaret Courtney-Clarke. Levanta News.

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