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Zanele Muholi and the coming out of Black queer South African communities
MEP), Victoria Aresheva, says this is the core of Muholi’s work.“The artist presents themself as a visual activist, their work seeks to give visibility to the LGBTQIA+ community, under-represented in the media and in visual culture,” she told RFI’s Muriel Maalouf.Born in 1972 in Umlazi, a township near Durban, South Africa, Muholi studied at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg and Ryerson University in Toronto.Many of the self-portraits deliberately accentuate their skin colour. “There is no make-up used in any of these photos,” says Muholi, explaining that they altered the contrast in post-production to obtain the effect.Click on the image below to open slideshow:{{ scope.legend }}In exaggerating the darkness of their skin, the artist asserts a form of beauty.