DURHAM, NC.- Travelling Light, an exhibition by award-winning South African documentary photographer Paul Weinberg, will open at the Hanks Lobby, Reynolds Theater, on Duke University's West Campus on January 31, 2005. The exhibition is an edited version of Weinberg's book by the same name (published by UKZN Press, 2004), which reflects twenty-five years of the photographer's images and observations. Rather than a retrospective, the exhibit is a personal collection of moments from this period. Weinberg, during this time, has witnessed South Africa's movement full circle from apartheid to freedom.

The full circle is also a metaphor from the city to the land and all that is between. The series of images have a lot to do with life that fell between the cracks. In his introduction Weinberg writes, "Between the cracks, life continues with its pain and joy. During the 'dark days,' apartheid shadowed me on all these journeys. It was always there consciously or not. It was in the lines of people's faces or in the fascist bravado of military parades. Agricultural shows and numerous events echoed their presence. But it was the people I was looking at - watching how they reflected themselves and how I absorbed their reflections, how they danced with reality, how they made light in a dark space, how they embraced each other at great risk."

Peter Storey, an anti-apartheid activist and former Bishop of the Johannesburg/Soweto area, will speak at the exhibition opening. Storey is currently the Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry at Duke's Divinity School.

Weinberg, a South African photographer and filmmaker and also author of several photography books, is currently studying in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Duke University and teaching at the Center for Documentary Studies.

The exhibition is on view in the Hanks Lobby of Reynolds Theater at the Bryan Center through March 26 and is open to the public on Wednesdays, Fridays, and weekends from noon until 5 p.m.