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Zanele Muholi is a visual activist born in Umlazi, Durban, in 1972, and currently living in Cape Town.
Prior to her photographic journeys into black female sexualities and genders in Africa, she worked as a human/lesbian rights activist with members in her community, raising the many issues facing black lesbian women living in South Africa today. Since 2009 has received several distinctions and awards: Jean-Paul Blachère award-winner at the Rencontres de Bamako, African Photography Biennial, also winning the Casa Africa award for best female photographer living in Africa.  Her work has been included in a large number exhibition, of which highlights the 29th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2010); Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African photography at the V&A Museum, London (2011); Face of Our Time II at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2011); Appropriated Landscapes at the Walther Collection, Neu Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany (2011), and Dokumenta13 Kassel, Germany (2012).

Web: www.zanelemuholi.com