“I am just doing my job” – eating the female body
Zanele Muholi’s installation on the objectification and commodification of the female body – “I’m Just Doing My Job” at the Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town. The installation uses raw meat parts in mimicking the women in Japan whose bodies are…
Difficult Love
Difficult Love, is an intimate portrait of Queer visual activist, photographer Zanele Muholi, her work, her community and her loves. Difficult Love is showing at the Out in Africa film festival in Johannesburg
Unforgotten Faces – Acknowledging Black Womyn of South Africa
Busisiwe Sigasa For Artscape Women’s Festival 2010, Zanele Muholi and Ellen Eisenman have produced a collection of photographs that celebrate women’s lives. They recognize and honor the living as well as those who have left the planet. And they question,…
Faces & Phases, Proudly African & Transgender: Exhibitions in Amsterdam
Two of my favorite people, Zanele Muholi [Faces and Phases] and Gabrielle Le Roux [Proudly African and Transgender] have a joint exhibition over the next 3 months in Amsterdam – July 29 – October 20.
Zanele Muholi: Australia where the walls are too white
Photographer and performance artist, Zanele Muholi has three new exhibitions which will be showcased on Black Looks over the next few weeks. This is the first time a Black woman from South Africa Zanele is having her work exhibited at…
Desexualising the mind: 1 – Being [t]here
Zanele Muholi speaks on the sexualised gaze perpetuated on Black women’s bodies from [Sara] Saartjie Baartman, Caster Semenya to Zanele’s own Queer body. She asks ” What does it mean to have Black bodies in foreign spaces and how those…
being – the lives of people like myself
Being: Zanele Muholi – photographer
what! dont you see when you look at me?
“What dont you see when you look at me”, is a brave intervention by visual activist Zanele Muholi. In this video installation she uses her own body [being] to examine the Western gaze and mapping of the Black female body…
Indawo Yami – Thru Camera Lenses (stories from Cape Town)
A group of young lesbians particularly from the disadvantaged communities in Cape Town, SA are telling their own stories through the lenses of a camera. Most of them are coming from the poverty stricken areas like Gugulethu and Nyanga and…
Removing the mask – faces of African lesbians
Faces and Phases is a 2007 exhibition by South African photo activist Zanele Mutholi. Zanele describes the face as expressing the person but for her the face is her own face to face meeting with women in her community of…
Photo Activism: Zanele Muholi
Met Zanele Muholi, a lesbian photographer-activist. Progressive, radical, beautiful, challenging. Zanele took the photos behind “Tommy boys, lesbian men and ancestral wives” and is also the Community Relations Officer at FEW (Forum for the Empowerment of Women). Hate Crime Survivor…
Warm welcome! Olusegun Fayemi, Photographer
For the past 25 years, Dr. A. Olusegun Fayemi, a Nigerian, has devoted his energies to social documentary photography of continental Africans and Africans in the diaspora. View his photo gallery and enjoy! Curtesy of Desert Warrior…