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Photography at its best should make us stop, sit up and pay attention. If that\u2019s the benchmark, then South African photographer Zanele Muholi\u2019s images not only meet it, but surpass it \u2014 Muholi’s photographs bring you to a standstill, their breathtaking power reverberating in your bones long after you\u2019ve seen them. Through arresting portraiture, Muholi interrogates the politics of race and the representation of black as well as the LGBTQIA<\/span>+ communities in a mesmerising fashion that makes it\u00a0<\/span>astoundingly relevant today. Their work \u2014 Muholi uses the pronouns their\/they and identifies queer \u2014 proclaims how a photograph is not a passive document, but a vital political weapon with the ability to intervene in accepted social codes and practices. <\/span><\/p>\n

The immense potency and necessity of Muholi\u2019s work is explored in their new monograph, <\/span>Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail The Dark Lioness<\/span><\/i>, recently published by Aperture<\/a>. The publication of this spellbinding photobook coincides with the opening of an exhibition of the same name at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta<\/a> next week, with both book and exhibition presenting an incredible selection of over 70 self-portraits that confront the complexity of race and identity. Taken between 2014 and 2017, <\/span>Somnyama Ngonyama <\/span><\/i>investigates a range of tropes and themes including, domestic servitude, gender, sexual politics, xenophobia and violence, racism and homophobia, hinged on the charged representation of the black body. <\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":69854,"id":69854,"title":"Zanele-Muholi_02","filename":"Zanele-Muholi_02.jpg","filesize":1084479,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Zanele-Muholi_02.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/zanele-muholi\/zanele-muholi_02\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Somnyama IV, Oslo, 2015","name":"zanele-muholi_02","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":69850,"date":"2018-09-05 11:33:25","modified":"2018-09-05 12:00:03","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1807,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Zanele-Muholi_02.jpg","thumbnail-width":80,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Zanele-Muholi_02.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1807,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Zanele-Muholi_02.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1807,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Zanele-Muholi_02.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1807,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Zanele-Muholi_02.jpg","1536x1536-width":1275,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Zanele-Muholi_02.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1807,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Zanele-Muholi_02.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":10,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Zanele-Muholi_02.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1807}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

In post-production, Muholi increased the images\u2019 contrast in order to darken the complexion of the skin. The effect is stirring: the whites of the eyes pop and probe; the skin colour is emphasised and elevated \u2014 it is the focal point, the springboard for all the questions that Muholi poses. \u201cI\u2019m reclaiming my blackness, which I feel is continuously performed by the privileged other,\u201d explains Muholi. \u201cMy reality is that I do not mimic being black; it is my skin, and the experience of being black is deeply entrenched in me.\u201d This experience that Muholi reveals through self-portraiture is not an easy one, rather the range of found objects and props employed in the photographs allude to a devastating history \u2014 for example, in one image Muholi wears a miner\u2019s hat and goggles to commemorate the Marikana miners\u2019 massacre in 2012 in South Africa; in another Muholi shyly peers out from the soft fuzz of a police cell blanket, or shrouds their face in white plastic wrapping in reference to how racial profiling reduces black people to waste material, or \u201ctrash\u201d as Muholi says<\/a>. In other photographs, \u00a0Muholi employs an ethnographic style of photography that spotlights the almost fetishistic Western fascination with black bodies and exoticised depictions of African culture \u2014 intricate headdresses are fashioned from banal, household objects such as pegs and sponges, or alternatively, from items like sunglasses that play on derogatory Western tropes of black identity. <\/span><\/p>\n

Interestingly, <\/span>Somnyama Ngonyama<\/span><\/i> coincides with another exhibition of Muholi\u2019s work at Charleston<\/a> in East Sussex. This exhibition entitled\u00a0<\/span>Faces and Phases<\/span><\/i> presents an equally significant and spirited selection of monochromatic portraits that celebrate black lesbian and transgender identities. 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“Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail The Dark Lioness”<\/span>, is now available<\/a> from Aperture. The exhibition of the same name runs from 14 September until 8 December 2018 at\u00a0Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

“Zanele Muholi: Faces and Phases” opens on 8 September at Charleston<\/a> and runs through to 6 January 2019.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

All images by Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Aperture.<\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"\nThese striking self-portraits reclaim black identity These striking self-portraits reclaim black identity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/zanele-muholi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"These striking self-portraits reclaim black identity These striking self-portraits reclaim black identity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/zanele-muholi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-09-05T13:01:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-09-12T06:46:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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