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Zanele Muholi’s Self-Portraits as Visual Weapons

Zanele Muholi’s Self-Portraits as Visual Weapons

In anticipation of the 2022 exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, in Paris, French publisher Éditions delpire & co has gathered 96 self-portraits by Zanele Muholi under a book titled Somnyama Ngonyama – Hail the Dark Lioness, in which the South African who defines herself as a visual activist exposes stereotypes of the representation of Black culture.

Bester V, Mayotte, 2015; from Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Salut à toi, Lionne noire (delpire & co, 2021) © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town / Johannesburg, and Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York The tone for this lar...

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