Detroit Free Press / Black Star
01 January, 1986
Winnie Mandela, in traditional dress, peers through the bars of the fence surrounding her home in Soweto, South Africa. Her husband, Nelson Mandela, had been in prison for the last 24 years for his Anti-Apartheid leadership of the African National Congress.
David Turnley
American photojournalist David C. Turnley (Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1955) is the winner of two World Press Photo of the Year awards, one Pulitzer Prize, and the Overseas Press Club’s...
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