In December 2009 the photographer Emmanuel Andre and filmmaker Stephanie Wang Breal went on a trip to South Africa as part of the charity, Room 13 to teach photography to young children at two schools; in Soweto outside Johannesburg and Botshabelo in the Free State Province. Andre and Wang Breal made a book, documentary and exhibition (the pictures have already been exhibited at the Austrian Cultural Center in New York City)–under the title ‘Ubuntu” (I know it’s not a terribly original title) based on the trip.

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