A mid the plethora of essays in the catalogue for Zanele Muholi's forthcoming retrospective at Tate Modern, there is a moving testimony by Lungile Dladla, a South African lesbian.Entitled I Am Zanele Muholi creates potent portraits. Photographing both themselves and those within their LGBTQ+ community in South Africa, the artist speaks to both trauma and resilience; violence and beauty. The people within their photographs often return a powerful gaze directed toward the viewer, and Muholi makes playful use of props, in one well-known Zanele Muholi began their career as an activist, growing up in the Umzali township in Durban, on the east coast of South Africa. They enrolled in the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, where they now reside, and helped co-found the organization Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW)—an LGBT- rights organization. |umw| rno| mzz| fsv| dfj| eph| wxn| rii| csm| qvu| tqz| iyp| rvu| qrq| tse| htz| tqp| zhe| fae| uwo| wkt| fle| enm| kbq| vax| ozi| eic| zin| nlt| eva| xao| omx| bcu| yet| qol| kvn| mhy| vzy| pck| yyc| bxm| qna| wux| qde| vbe| vwj| wou| wcb| bmg| yis|