Earlier in the year, Zanele Muholi was named the 2026 laureate of the prestigious Hasselblad Award, the world’s largest ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first retrospective in France devoted to renowned South African photographer and activist Zanele Muholi has opened in Paris. The exhibition brings together more than 200 works documenting the life ...

Qiniso, The Sails, Durban, 2019. By Zanele Muholi, courtesy of the Artist and Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York. Bona, Charlottesville, 2015. By Zanele Muholi, courtesy ...

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.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Zanele Muholi, the internationally acclaimed artist and visual activist known for intense, ...

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 ...

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 ...