Photographic Gallery: Jillian Edelstein

Acclaimed photographer Jillian Edelstein's series of Portraits include images of significant figures from the world of arts, fashion and the demi-monde, but also politics: her portrait of Nelson Mandela, taken in Cape Town in 1997. There is also a delightful photograph of three South African boys mucking about by the water.

Affinities is a series of studies of professional and personal connections between like-minded. "After I had a bad break-up, I started to think about how friendships and relationships come out of creative partnerships," she says. "Gilbert and George chose their cleaner, Stainton Forrest. It was a lot of fun!"

The gallery finishes with Truth and Lies, the series of portraits taken in her role as official photograph at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. It is a captivating collection. perhaps the most remarkable image is of a mother pictured with the man thought to have killed her son. "Jerry Richardson, the man alleged to have murdered her son, was there carrying a football. She requested to be photographed with him. I just remember the silence as I was taking the photograph."

Read Sue Steward's interview with Jillian Edelstein.

Quentin Crisp, New York

James Baldwin, London

Nelson Mandela, Cape Town 1997

Kate Moss, London fashion shows

Bill Nighy

Bridget Riley

Paul Smith

Three boys, Warmwaterberg, Xmas 2000

Colin Jackson and Linford Christie

Darcey Bussell and Jonathan Cope

Jay Jopling and Damien Hirst

Jerry Hall and Clive James

Gilbert and George with cleaner Stainton Forest

Marika Rivera and Dudley Sutton, Chelsea Arts Club

Ruth Rendell and Marie Witt

Fiona Shaw and Deborah Warner on Primrose Hill

David Zweli Dlamini, Amnesty hearings into Inkatha Freedom Party "Caprivi trainees", Durban, 1998

Fikile Mlotshwa, comforter at the hearings in the Johannesburg area, 1997

Joyce Mtimkulu, Zwide Port Elizabeth, 1997

Cradock landscape, Eastern Cape, 1997

Gideon Niewoudt and witness protector Mike Barnardo, 1998

Mrs Seipei and Jerry Richardson, Johannesburg, 1997

Father Michael Lapsley, 1997

Craig Williamson, Pretoria hearings, 1998