sentences:  The apartheid photos he had taken were used extensively by the ANC in their various publications.Cole died of cancer in New York City on 18 February 1990 at the age of 49.Cole's negatives were considered lost for a long time, but a collection of 60,000 negatives was found at a bank vault in Stockholm and, in April 2018, given to his heirs who had founded The Ernest Cole Family Trust.