Chris Harris on photographing Nelson Mandela in 1990
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I got to Johannesburg a week or so before Nelson Mandela was released. At the door of my hotel a guy offered to clean my shoes. I said no thanks. I’d spent a lot of time photographing anti-apartheid demonstrations and felt embarrassed at the thought of a black guy cleaning my shoes. He said I was taking the bread out of his children’s mouths, so I let him clean my shoes and we got chatting. He was called Radebe and it turned out he was a neighbour of Mandela.
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