Life in the Liberated Zone is a photographic series by David Lurie, documenting the sprawling squatter settlements that emerged on the outskirts of Cape Town in the late 1980s, following the apartheid government’s abandonment of the restrictive Pass Laws. Pass Laws were strict requirements which meant non-whites had to carry documents authorising their presence in restricted areas, restricting movement and enforcing racial segregation. Shot in the aftermath of a major shift in South African internal policy, the work captures a moment of rapid, chaotic urban transformation as people moved freely into urban areas that had previously been off-limits.