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          This paper focuses on the work of two photographers—Helen Levitt and Jansje Wissema—who extensively documented children playing in streets and produced.

        1. Collections: Jansje Wissema Photographic Collection Subject: Political history--South Africa Williams, Graeme, (); Vallie, Zubeida.
        2. She also trained other women photographers, such as Jansje Wissema, who was apprenticed to Fischer in and who ran the studio during.
        3. From Cane Fields to Freedom: A Chronicle of Indian South African Life.
        4. Images by women photojournalists, artists, and political workers including Mabel Cetu, Jansje Wissema, Lesley Lawson, Zubeida Vallie and Mavis Mtandeki all set.

          5. She also trained other women photographers, such as Jansje Wissema, who was apprenticed to Fischer in and who ran the studio during..

          The origins of the hardcover book entitled, 'District Six - Memories, Thoughts and Images' which I have edited goes back to a series of photographs, taken by my late uncle, Jan Greshoff, in the early and mid-1970’s.

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          Jan was an architect who worked in CT from the 60s to the 80s.

          He was a private and modest man and didn't talk much about his photography. Jan had no children and it was only after he died that his wife passed his archive of negatives on to us, his nephews and niece, that we discovered the full extent of his archive.

          Wissema was a pioneering woman photographer and documentary photographer.

          His photographs covered many areas around Cape Town, including District Six.

          In common with many architects, Jan was always a keen photographer and his profession certainly informed his work and his interest in his environment.

          He was a very close friend of Jansje Wissema, who was commissioned to photograph District Six for the South African Institute of Architects at roughly the same time that Jan was photographing the area. Their p