Iziko Slave Museum of South Africa: The Slave Calendar, 16

Credits & Description:

Agency: Geometry Global Cape Town and Ogilvy & Mather Cape Town
Client: Melody Kleinsmith
Retoucher: Erika Straudacher
Retoucher: Gavin Haywood
Print Producer: Lara Bothma
Print Producer: Ciska Visser
Managing Director: Nicky Schermer
Managing Director: Carol Gallarelli
Account Director: Hannah Deall
Account Director: Lyndall Tuft
Strategist: Mike Wills
Account Manager: Jenna Flynn
Copywriter: Quinton van Rooyen
Copywriter: Anthony Walton
Art Director: Gavin Wood
Designer: Stuart Miller
Designer: Jedd Mcneilage
Creative Director: Gavin Wood
Executive Creative Director: Anthony Walton
Executive Creative Director: Pete Case
Executive Creative Director: Howard Smiedt
Photographer: David Prior
Printer: Johan Valentine
Project Manager: Fd Majiet
Project Manager: Karen Vermeulen
Agency Producer: Katherine Freemantle
Agency Producer: Kayla Noble
Synopsis:
The tens of thousands of slaves who were torn from their homes and brought to South Africa have been all but forgotten. They were stripped of everything. Even their names. And renamed after the month in which they arrived.
The Slave Calendar documents the lost stories of these men and women. It has become a local and international front page news story, endorsed by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, and is now an on-going exhibit at the Iziko Slave Museum in Cape Town.
More than that, though, it has given a voice to the tragedy of these long-forgotten Januaries to Decembers.