Zanele Muholi prefers not to be known as an artist; instead, the South African photographer, who was born in Umlazi at the height of apartheid, identifies as a “visual activist.” A quick look at their ...

“Siyafana is a word that means ‘we are the same’ in Zulu, and encompasses both the similarities and the differences within our ‘black’ race,'” says South African-born photographer Zanele Muholi, ...

Walking through the initial galleries of the SFMOMA’s stunning new exhibit by queer South African photographer Zanele Muholi, Eye Me, one immediately notices Muholi’s capacity to wring emotions from ...

With an intense stare, androgynous beauty and skin often deepened in postproduction to an inky, painterly black, Johannesburg-based artist Zanele Muholi compels you to look. As the subject of an ...

“Can I own my voice? Can I own me? Because my mother never had an opportunity to own her own voice until she died.” These questions posed by South African artist Zanele Muholi are at the core of their ...

Zanele Muholi’s dignified and defiant portraits of people persecuted for their sexuality have made her a contender for this year’s Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. 04 April 2015 • 8:00am Faces and ...

Portraits of South African activists and the enigmatic silhouettes of Bill Brandt join a selection from more than 70 galleries at Aipad: The Photography Show at the Park Avenue Armory in New York from ...

Looking at the astonishing pictures in Zanele Muholi’s recent series, “Somnyama Ngonyama” (which means “Hail the Dark Lioness” in Zulu), it’s tempting to start mentally sketching an art-family tree.

Zanele Muholi’s self-portraits are so dark they glow. Called “Somnyama Ngonyama” (“Hail the Dark Lioness”), the series has been shown in ten cities across the world in the past year. Last autumn they ...

South African photographer Zanele Muholi doesn’t mince words when it comes to what she wants to accomplish. “Like any other great men, I want to be counted in history,” she says. “I want to produce ...

A word off the top: The South African artist Zanele Muholi uses the pronoun “they,” though for them, it has little to do with the fluidity of gender. Muholi has also adopted the honorific “sir,” a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. MaID II, Atlanta, 2017, from the self-portrait series Somnyama Ngonyama ...