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The faces on the factory floor: William Matlala's exhibit reminds viewers that workers are human
Insight: Photography
For nearly four three decades the anonymous South African worker has had a determined chronicler in William Matlala, whose images are now on show
02 September 2018 - 00:00 By TYMON SMITH
William Matlala was a factory worker in the early 1980s during the rise of the trade union movement.
He worked in a packing plant, transferring condiments from tubs into sachets for use in restaurants - one of those jobs that most of us assume get done somehow, without thinking too much about who might be responsible.
Matlala was also a photographer, and he began to bring his camera to work, making extra money by taking photographs of his co-workers - at work in their uniforms, outside factory gates when they had knocked off, and sometimes at home and for special family occasions.
After leaving his job in the factory, Matlala made his living as a street photographer in his