O’Connell, Siona2018-08-032018-08-032017O'Connell, S. 2017, 'Snapshots of freedom : street photography in Cape Town from the 1930s to the 1980s', Image and Text, no. 29, pp. 219-234.1020-1497 (online)http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66073In this article, I look at the “ordinary” (or “everyday”) archive of the racially oppressed, viewing it as an entry point into apartheid afterlives, while arguing for a rethinking of humanness and freedom after racial oppression. I consider the photographs produced by “Movie Snaps” – a street photographic studio of Cape Town, South Africa, that operated between the 1930s and the 1980s – and suggest that looking to previously marginalised narratives can offer insight into larger questions of self-representation, belonging and freedom. The contents of this article are based on a larger research project on forced removals in Cape Town, out of which several exhibitions and two documentary films have been produced to date.enUniversity of Pretoria, Department of Visual ArtsApartheidForced removalsPhotographyArchiveFreedomRepresentationStreet photographyArticle