{"product_id":"margaret-courtney-clarke-when-tears-dont-matter-9783958298774","title":"Margaret Courtney-Clarke: When Tears Don't Matter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow dispossession and climate change have wreaked destruction on the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing her 2017 book \u003ci\u003eCry Sadness into the Coming Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, Margaret Courtney-Clarke (born 1949) now turns her lens to the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert. The inspiration for \u003ci\u003eWhen Tears Don't Matter\u003c\/i\u003e comes, in part, from her grandfather's photographs of almost a century earlier during his mandate as Secretary for South West Africa (now Namibia), some of which are reproduced here. More than 6,000 miles of formidable terrain takes Courtney-Clarke across bushveld, sand and salt pans to drought-stricken conservancies, farming communities that function as holding tanks for \"cultural villages\" and peri-urban squatments. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLargely invisible to the outside world, the bushmen today are dispossessed of their land, sidelined by economic inequity and outdated mythologies that present them as living in an \"uncontaminated\" state. Courtney-Clarke's photographs lie at the crossroads between documentary and activism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steidl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783958298774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240","brand":"Margaret Courtney-Clarke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52491424694453,"sku":"9783958298774","price":55.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e170edd3-6434-4429-ba5f-5822fe776166.jpg?v=1777996270","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/margaret-courtney-clarke-when-tears-dont-matter-9783958298774","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}