2010
Difficult Love
Difficult Love presents a lively personal take on the challenges facing Black lesbians in South Africa today.
Zanele Muholi
Zanele Muholi is an internationally acclaimed visual activist whose photography celebrates Black LGBTQ+ communities.
Career
Photography; Visual Activist
Origin / Ethnicity / Heritage
South African
Additional Languages
English
Pronouns
They/Them
About
- Origin / Ethnicity / Heritage
- South African
- Pronouns
- They/Them
- Location
- Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
- Additional Languages
- English
Photography series (self-portraits) · 2012
Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness)
Self-portraits in which Muholi dons everyday props and heightened contrast to confront racism, labour, Eurocentrism and sexual politics while reclaiming Blackness.
Photography series · 2006
Faces and Phases
A living archive of portraits of Black lesbians, transgender and gender-nonconforming South Africans, created in response to violence and erasure facing that community.