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

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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Ntobz Mkhwanazi, BB section Umlazi, Durban, (2012) an image to be featured in Muholi's 2012 Documenta exhibition. (Photo courtesy Zanele Muholi/ Stevenson gallery) In fact, human-rights organizations ...

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.

Sir Zanele Muholi describes themself not as a visual artist but as a visual activist. For nearly 20 years, Muholi has photographed LGBTQ+ people in South Africa. Now, they want their photography to ...

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 ...