<p>Photographer and activist Zanele Muholi highlights the ruthless and often violent discrimination faced by black lesbians in South Africa. Through frank and intimate photographic portrayals—including the scars of hate crimes, the bonds between lovers, and the life lines of women living in society's margins—this compilation inspires a deeper understanding of blackness, the female form, skin tones, body types, and varying sexualities in a way that is unprecedented in South Africa.</p>

Zanele Muholi: Only Half the Picture

Arts & Photography

Muholi, Zanele

Individual Artists

Real African Publishers

<p>Award-winning photographer Zanele Muholi's images offer a bold stance against the stigmatization of lesbian and gay sexualities in Africa and beyond. The 'Faces and Phases' series of black and white portraits by Zanele Muholi focuses on the commemoration and celebration of black lesbians' lives. Muholi embarked on this project in 2007, taking portraits of women from the townships in South Africa. In 2008, after the xenophobic and homophobic attacks that led to the mass displacement of people in that country, she decided to expand the ongoing series to include photographs of woman from different countries. Collectively, the portraits are an act of visual activism. Depicting women of various ages and backgrounds, this gallery of images offers a powerful statement about the similarities and diversity that exist within the human race.</p>

Faces and Phases: Zanele Muholi

Photography & Video

Prestel

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