Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi is a South African visual activist working across photography, video and installation. Based in Johannesburg, Muholi has built a vital visual archive centred on Black LGBTQIA+ lives, identity, intimacy and resistance in South Africa. Their portrait and self-portrait projects combine documentary purpose with a rigorous fine-art language, creating images that preserve histories while challenging exclusion from dominant cultural narratives. Muholi’s practice is internationally exhibited and is widely recognised for linking portraiture with community visibility, dignity and social change.