Zanele Muholi teases apart one of her favorite images from her 2016 series of self-portraits in an exclusive conversation with LensCulture.
South African artist Zanele Muholi’s self-portraits seem familiar at first, but the details tell a bigger story.
Through more than 60 photographs, South African visual activist Zanele Muholi’s first solo exhibition in London is a vast confrontation of the politics and history of race and representation. The ongoing self-portrait series, Somnyama Ngonyama, was shot throughout Europe, North America and Africa and Muholi’s “psychologically charged” portraits present subtlety disturbing images of the black […]
For this visual activist, coming of age in South Africa’s Apartheid era wasn’t easy — and neither is setting the path for the next generation.
Here are eight of the most impressive works we saw during the opening night gala of the ADAA art fair at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.
South African artist Zanele Muholi’s self-portraits seem familiar at first, but the details tell a bigger story.
May 31, 2020In March, when the coronavirus pandemic upended life as we know it and sent us all into lockdown mode, the veteran Los Angeles dealer Peter Fetterman planted a seed of sorts. He started a new online series: the “Power of Photography.” Composed so far of more than 30 images, all in black and […]
These four female artists are redefining portrait photography.
South Africa might have been the continent’s first country to legalise same-sex marriage, but its LGBT community remains the target of hate crimes. Assault is common, and so-called “corrective rape” continues.
South African visual artist, activist, and photographer Zanele Muholi took 365 self-portraits for her series titled ‘Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness’, to bring to...
