Les Rencontres d’Arles: Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi, South Africa
Queer photographer Zanele Muholi is nominated for the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award and she exhibiting at the festival in Arles, France, from July 2 to September 23, 2012. Zanele Muholi’s exhibition at Arles is a visual exploration of ‘making / mapping / preserving radical black lesbian and queer  (LGBTI : lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex) visual history in post-Apartheid South Africa’.

Her work can also be seen on tête-à-tête, curated by Mickalene Thomas, at Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York July 12 – 31 August 31; and on Appropriated Landscapes at the Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany until May 2013. And her series Faces and Phases,  her astonishing portraits – a wall of 60 large-scale lesbian and transgender subjects from several African countries are on display at dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel Germany this summer.

Upcoming Exhibition
MO(U)RNING by Zanele Muholi, Stevenson, Cape Town, July 26 – September 1, 2012.

Books
Two books have been published on her work: Only Half the Picture (2006) and Faces & Phases (2010).