born 1960 · Australia · Photographer
Tracey Moffatt
Staged photographs and films on Indigenous Australian history and memory.
Something More, 1989Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · BORN 1972 · SOUTH AFRICA
Zanele Muholi
Black-and-white portraits and self-portraits of Black LGBTQIA+ South Africans.
- Born
- 1972
- Country
- South Africa
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 2006Faces and Phases
- 2012Somnyama Ngonyama
WHY THEY MATTER
Retrospective at Tate Modern (2020); shown at the Venice Biennale; honorary professorship and many awards.
THE LIFE
Muholi is a South African visual activist. Faces and Phases is an ongoing series of portraits of Black lesbian, transgender and gender-nonconforming people, made as a counter-archive. The self-portrait series Somnyama Ngonyama uses everyday materials to question race and representation. Tate Modern held a major exhibition of their work in 2020.
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born 1961 · India · Photographer
Dayanita Singh
Book-objects and mobile museums of black-and-white photographs.
Myself Mona Ahmed, 2001Source: Wikipedia
born 1962 · Nigeria · Photographer
Samuel Fosso
Theatrical self-portraits in costume.
Tati series, 1997Source: Wikipedia
born 1968 · Germany · Photographer
Wolfgang Tillmans
Intimate snapshots, abstractions and installations of mixed sizes.
Freischwimmer, 2003Source: Wikipedia
born 1972 · Japan · Photographer
Rinko Kawauchi
Soft, light-filled colour pictures of small, everyday moments.
Utatane, 2001Source: Wikipedia
born 1973 · United States · Photographer
Lynsey Addario
Conflict and humanitarian reportage focused on women's lives.
It's What I Do (memoir), 2015Source: Wikipedia