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SARTORIAL LOOKS #4 CONTEMPORARY ART & PHOTOGRAPHY | Zanele Muholi | Sinenhlanhla Lunga, Faces & Places, 2012. Zanele Muholi, Faces and Phase, 2012.Sinenhlanhla Lunga, Kwanele South, Katlehong, Johannesburg, 2012. Image courtesy of the artist and Stevenson | Johannesburg & Cape Town. Zanele Muholi was born in Umlazi, Durban, in 1972, and lives in Cape Town. She studied photography at the Market Photo Workshop in Newtown, Johannesburg. She was a founder of the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW), a black lesbian organisation based in Gauteng. She was the recipient of the 2005 Tollman Award for the Visual Arts, the first BHP Billiton/Wits University Visual Arts Fellowship in 2006, and was the 2009 Ida Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2009 she received a Fanny Ann Eddy accolade from IRN-Africa for her outstanding contributions to the study of sexuality in Africa. She also won the Casa Africa award for best female photographer and a Fondation Blachère award at Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography in 2009. In 2010 her Faces and Phases series was included on the 29th São Paulo Biennale; the series was published by Prestel and nominated as best photobook of 2010 at the International Photobook Festival in Kassel. zanelemuholi.com

SARTORIAL LOOKS #4
CONTEMPORARY ART & PHOTOGRAPHY | Zanele Muholi | Sinenhlanhla Lunga, Faces & Places, 2012.


Zanele Muholi, Faces and Phase, 2012.
Sinenhlanhla Lunga, Kwanele South, Katlehong, Johannesburg, 2012.

Image courtesy of the artist and Stevenson | Johannesburg & Cape Town.

Zanele Muholi was born in Umlazi, Durban, in 1972, and lives in Cape Town. She studied photography at the Market Photo Workshop in Newtown, Johannesburg. She was a founder of the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW), a black lesbian organisation based in Gauteng. She was the recipient of the 2005 Tollman Award for the Visual Arts, the first BHP Billiton/Wits University Visual Arts Fellowship in 2006, and was the 2009 Ida Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2009 she received a Fanny Ann Eddy accolade from IRN-Africa for her outstanding contributions to the study of sexuality in Africa. She also won the Casa Africa award for best female photographer and a Fondation Blachère award at Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography in 2009. In 2010 her Faces and Phases series was included on the 29th São Paulo Biennale; the series was published by Prestel and nominated as best photobook of 2010 at the International Photobook Festival in Kassel.

zanelemuholi.com

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