Gille de Vlieg

thumb|Gille Gille de Vlieg (born 26 July 1940) is a South African photographer and anti-apartheid activist. She was born in England and moved to South Africa with her mother when she was 3 years old. During apartheid she was a member of both the Black Sash and one of the few women members of the Afrapix photography collective. Quotes Hiding behind my lens, I began to see more than the brutality of the times – although there was plenty of that. What became most visible was the spirit of the people resisting that brutality. https://www.saha.org.za/news/2014/February/collection_of_the_month_the_gille_de_vlieg_photographic_collection_al3274.htm?utm Well sometimes, you see, I was interested in people's lives. So sometimes it wasn't like highly political photographs. They were photographs of women hanging up washing in the back yards and that type of thing; a woman washing a floor. https://www.saha.org.za/gille_de_vlieg.htm?utm I wanted to make a contribution to an alternative view of South Africa, a view not seen on the South African TV screen then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gille_de_Vlieg External links Category: Living people Category: Women from South Africa Category:Photographers from South Africa Category:1940 births Category:Women born in the 1940s