Photo: © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg & Yancey Richardson, New York
Visual Activism
Zanele Muholi’s impressive photo series Faces and Phases, which she began in 2006, now comprises over 250 black-and-white portraits of black lesbians and trans people, in South Africa and elsewhere. Wanting to counteract her community’s absence from (art) history, Muholi documents individuals who together constitute a constantly evolving visual archive that tends to make representations of identity more complex, rather than circumscribe them.
