Zanele Muholi

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Ntozakhe II, Parktown (detail; 2016), Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of the artist and Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York; © Zanele Muholi

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Since the early 2000s, Muholi has taken photographs that look unflinchingly at the divisions of post-apartheid South Africa. Their biggest UK survey to date includes some 260 works, extending from the artist’s first major series, Only Half the Picture – which explores the politics of gender and sexuality among queer communities in South Africa – to an ongoing series of theatrical self-portraits entitled Somnyama Ngonyama (‘Hail the Dark Lioness’ in Zulu). Find out more from the Tate’s website.

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Miss D’vine II (2007), Zanele Muholi. Courtesy the artist and Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York; © Zanele Muholi

Aftermath (2004), Zanele Muholi. Courtesy the artist and Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York; © Zanele Muholi

Bona, Charlottesville (2015), Zanele Muholi. Courtesy the artist and Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York; © Zanele Muholi

Qiniso, The Sails, Durban (2019), Zanele Muholi. Courtesy the artist and Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York; © Zanele Muholi

Ntozakhe II, Parktown (2016), Zanele Muholi. Courtesy the artist and Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York; © Zanele Muholi