Interior Relations Monograph by Ian van Coller
Limited-run monograph by Ian van Coller with 27 color plates and a touching essay by Sindiwe Magona addresses the subject of domestic workers in South Africa. A lovely and contemplative series, Interior Relations makes room for an an otherwise invisible demographic to shine. Each women in this project is photographed in the home they work dressed in their their best outfit. Their sense of pride for the space pushes against our knowing it is not her place. Their dignity and quiet honor is testiment to their character. That they may toil and have a chance for an education or to raise her children from poverty. As Magona writes "perhaps nowhere else is the legacy of apartheid as vividly portrayed as in the domestic worker’s life… that she doesn’t lose herself or lose her grip on reality, that she is not consumed by jealousy to utter madness at what she sees and must disavow. . . is a measure of the indomitableness of the human spirit.”