-These feel like images you might have dreamed, both of the kind that slip away and the ones you manage to keep tenuously in your grasp, slippery, otherworldly. . . . Before our eyes, Zanele Muholi transforms into a mother, a domestic worker, an Afrofuturist, an oracle. It-s fiction and it is not.--Yrsa Daley-Ward, The New York Times Book Review
Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness is the long-awaited monograph from one of the most powerful visual activists of our time. The book features over ninety of Muholi-s evocative self-portraits, each image drafted from material props in Muholi-s immediate environment. A powerfully arresting collection of work, Muholi-s radical statements of identity, race, and resistance are a direct response to contemporary and historical racisms. As Muholi states, -I am producing this photographic document to encourage individuals in my community to be brave enough to occupy spaces-brave enough to create without f
