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Interview with artist and activist Zanele Muholi on her documentary Difficult Love. The work provides a glimpse into her life and reveals the challenges faced by South Africa’s LGBT community. This week Difficult Love will be screened at the International Women Film Festival (IWFFIS), Seoul, Korea. The festival dates are: 19-26 April 2012.

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ZANELE MUHOLI – AFRICAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS 1
isbn 9788415303466   LA FABRICA
Idea Code 11530      €25,60

Promoted by Casa Africa, this collection is aimed at making the most outstanding African women photographers better known, particularly those who have won the Casa Africa Award at the Bamako African Photography Biennial. Zanele Muholi is the first title of this collection. Born in Durban (South Africa) in 1972, Muholi is a visual activist who endeavours to give greater visibility to the black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community of Africa. Although her perspective is highly radical and provocative, it is simultaneously filtered through a truly intense, lucid and profoundly tender gaze.

110 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, Spanish/English

Above right: Cover of Zanele Muholi – African Women Photographers 1

Congratulations to visual activist Zanele Muholi and co-director Peter Goldsmid!

Based on the audience voting slips during the festival in the category of DOCUMENTARY, the production Difficult Love has won the audience award for BEST DOCUMENTARY at DGLFF 2011 in Durban.

See The Documentary Difficult Love Online
In ‘Difficult Love’ Zanele talks about her work as a photographer and queer activist, and we see her at work making her portraits of lesbians for the photography book Faces and Phases. She explains in the film that she is making images that speak to her, images that show her community and document her community: the black lesbians in the townships of South Africa. – If you want to enjoy this great documentary online please see this post : Audience Award to Zanele Muholi’s Film Difficult Love (about the another award, which Difficult Love received earlier this year) for details about how you to watch this video online.

CTV News Bulletin of November 17, 2011. Topic: Lesbian artist Zanele Muholi uses menstruation as a medium to tell the story of black lesbians in South Africa.

Visual artist and queer activist Zanele Muholi, South Africa was interviewed by Cape Town TV about her latest exhibition Isilumo siyaluma (Period Pains). Read more about Isilumo siyaluma.