The collection includes photographs from the late 1970s to the early 1990s from photographers Karen Fletcher, David Goldblatt, Jenny Gordon, Ingrid Hudson, Lesley Lawson, Gideon Mendel, Santu Mofokeng, Ken Oosterbroek, Graeme Williams, Gisele Wulfsohn and Anna Zieminski.
The "Jo'burg City, Whose City?" exhibition of photographs took place in 1990, and was part of an oral history project looking at the inhabitants of Johannesburg and the impact of the Group Areas Act.