Sosi Molotsane, Yeoville, Johannesburg
Photograph
2007 (photographed)
2007 (photographed)
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Zanele Muholi's work addresses the sexual and gender identity of being lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, and transgender in South Africa by challenging the traditional documentary of black LGBTQIA+ people in photography. In the series Faces and Phases, Muholi aims to reflect a more representative society by photographing individuals across the spectrum from soccer player to dancer, a scholar to a human rights activist. Having been excluded from any formal gay rights movement until post-Apartheid, Muholi attempts to address the issues of violation and prejudice these communities still face.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Gelatin silver print |
| Brief description | Gelatin silver print, 'Sosi Molotsane, Yeoville, Johannesburg' from the series 'Faces and Phases', by Zanele Muholi, Johannesburg, 2007 |
| Physical description | Black and white photographic portrait of a women wearing a black v-neck standing in front of a flower patterned backdrop looking out toward the viewer |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Copy number | 4/8 |
| Gallery label | Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection (2021-2022)
Photography Centre, Gallery 101
Zanele Muholi (born 1972)
Nosipho 'Brown' Solundwana, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2007
Sosi Molotsane, Yeoville, Johannesburg, 2007
Bakhambile Skhosana, Natalspruit, 2010
Amogelang Senokwane, District Six, Cape Town, 2009
From the series Faces and Phases, 2007–10
Muholi’s work exposes the persistent violence and discrimination faced by the South African Black LGBTQIA+ community. Describing themself as a visual activist, for this ongoing series, Muholi photographed over 300 Black people living in South Africa who identify as lesbian, queer, trans or gender non-conforming. The portraits and their accompanying testimonies celebrate and empower each participant and, in Muholi’s words, are ‘a visual statement and an archive, marking, mapping and preserving an often invisible community for posterity’.
Gelatin silver prints
Museum nos. E.426-2011 to E.429-2011 |
| Credit line | Michael Stevenson gallery, Cape Town, 2011 |
| Object history | Included in exhibition 'Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography' at the V&A, 12 April - 17 July 2011 |
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| Summary | Zanele Muholi's work addresses the sexual and gender identity of being lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, and transgender in South Africa by challenging the traditional documentary of black LGBTQIA+ people in photography. In the series Faces and Phases, Muholi aims to reflect a more representative society by photographing individuals across the spectrum from soccer player to dancer, a scholar to a human rights activist. Having been excluded from any formal gay rights movement until post-Apartheid, Muholi attempts to address the issues of violation and prejudice these communities still face. |
| Bibliographic reference | Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography
Germany: Steidl, 2011
image appears on pages 188/189 |
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| Accession number | E.426-2011 |
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| Record created | August 22, 2011 |
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