Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Screening one night only, with a special introduction by Tulsa photographer Don Thompson! Don will also have a display of his own works on view in the lobby before the film. Tickets on sale soon, regular price.

1h45min - Documentary - Not Rated - English

About the film: Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience. His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27 years old, led him into exile in NYC and Europe for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings. Raoul Peck recounts his wanderings, his turmoil as an artist and his anger, on a daily basis, at the silence or complicity of the Western world in the face of the horrors of the Apartheid regime. He also recounts how, in 2017, 60,000 negatives of his work were discovered in the safe of a Swedish bank.

Don Thompson has over 50 years of photographic experience which began as a writer and photographer in the US Army. He is a certified Commercial Photographer. He is a 2022 graduate of Phillips Theological Seminary with a Master of Arts in social justice and a 1987 graduate of Northeastern State University. Don is a photojournalist, author, historian, painter, presenter, and community activist. He was selected Tulsa People Legends in the March 2023 issue and awarded the National Association of Black Journalist 2022 Photojournalism Award in December 2022. Don has exhibited extensively in the state, and region. His works are part of the Oklahoma State University Tulsa campus which houses his permanent photographic exhibit, entitled Black Settlers, In Search of the Promised Land, of which he collaborated with the late Mrs. Eddie Faye Gates in 1992-95. His works are also part of the permanent collection of the Philbrook Museum of Art-Tulsa, Ok, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American Culture and History, in Washington, D.C.