Guy Tillim, Fiorinda Ngoma, Her Mother Rosalia Nahamba (Holding Baby Filomena Lasinda), and Her Sister Rosali Sindali, Holding Baby Guerra, from the series Kunhinga, 2002, inkjet print, courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg

David Goldblatt, A Farmer’s Son with his Nursemaid, Heimweeberg, Nietverdiend, Western Transvaal, from the series Some Afrikaners Photographed, 1964 (printed 2010), gelatin silver print, courtesy of Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

Jodi Bieber, Babalwa, from the series Real Beauty, 2008, inkjet print, courtesy of Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin, Bakgatla, South Africa, early to mid 20th century, gelatin silver print, courtesy of The Walther Collection, Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg, and The McGregor Museum, Kimberley