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Louise Gubb - is a South African photojournalist noted for her coverage of struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the emergence of democracy under Nelson Mandela. Almost all of Gubb's commissioned work has been international in scope. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, Time, Life, Stern, Paris Match, and National Geographic. She currently freelances from Cape Town and is represented by Corbis Saba.

Background
Louise Gubb studied Philosophy and English at the University of Cape Town. Upon completing her degree in 1968, she traveled through the Middle East and the USA. She then studied Journalism and Photography at Harvard and MIT in the United States from 1976 to 1977. While working for U.S. News and World Report in 1985, Gubb and eight other photojournalists were arrested while covering a mass protest against apartheid in Athlone, a mixed-race Cape Town suburb.

Work
In 1972, Gubb worked for the United Nations and a local newspaper in Beirut as a writer and photographer. Between 1977 and 1980, she worked for Associated Press and Gama, covering the war and transition of Rhodesia to Zimbabawe. She then moved to New York, working with the Gamma Liaison photo agency and the United Nations while covering international news stories. In the 1980s, she returned to South Africa to photograph the struggle against apartheid. Gubb has judged the annual South African Ilford Photo Awards multiple times, the Fuji Press photography competitions in South Africa, as well as serving on an international panel of judges identifying candidates for the African Photo Entrepreneur Programme. She was also the assignment editor for "A Day in the Life of Africa" project

Exhibitions

 * 2002 "Shooting Resistance: South African Photography 1976 - 1994" - Axis Gallery Inc., New York City, NY

Books

 * Mandela: The Authorized Portrait
 * Nelson Mandela: A Life in Photographs
 * A Bigger Picture: A Manual of Photojournalism in Southern Africa.
 * Building Hope (The Carter Center Health Programs in Africa)
 * Life Under Democracy
 * Women by Women: 50 Years of Women’s Photography in South Africa
 * South Africa's Diverse Peoples