Fraser MacLean, originating from Nova Scotia in the USA, came to South Africa in the mid-1970s, and was the chief photographer at the Daily Dispatch in East London, where he worked together with Barbara Hutmacher whom he had met earlier back in the US and who would later become his wife. His photographs appear in her book entitled "In Black and White: Voices of Apartheid", first published in Great Britain by Junction Books in 1980. Both returned to the USA in the late 1970s, after the South African Government refused to renew Fraser MacLean's temporary residency. Most of Fraser MacLean's photographs remained with the Daily Dispatch newspaper.