• ZANELE MUHOLI, Somnyama Ngonyama / Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume II

ZANELE MUHOLI, Somnyama Ngonyama / Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume II

: Muholi (Z.) photo. & Mussai (R.) ed.

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169pp., large 4to., illus., hardback, New York, 2024

 

Nearly 100 self-portraits by South African photographer Zanele Muholi, created since the first volume of Somnyama Ngonyama, published in 2018.

Texts: Sophia Al-Maria, Natasha Becker, Phoebe Boswell, Tina M. Campt, Natasha Ginwala, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Aluta Humbane, Ntsiki Jacobs, Khanyisile Mbongwa, Porsha Olayiwola, Lola Olufemi and Legacy Russell.

Visual activist and photographer Zanele Muholi was born in Durban in 1972. She is co-founder of the Forum for the Empowerment of Women, and founder of Inkanyiso, a forum for queer and visual media, and Muholi Art Institute, Cape Town.  Muholi's awards include France’s Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2017); ICP Infinity Award for Documentary and Photojournalism (2016); Fine Prize for an emerging artist at the 2013 Carnegie International; and a Prince Claus Award (2013). The first volume of Somnyama Ngonyama was awarded the Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award in 2019. Muholi is an honorary professor at the University of the Arts Bremen, Germany.