Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume II (2024)

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Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume II
Aperture, 2024
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 172
Number of images: 80
Publication date: 2024-06-11
Measurements: 10.3 x 14 x 1 inches
ISBN: 9781597115377

In Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume II, Zanele Muholi explores and expands upon new personas and poetic interpretations of personhood, queerness, Blackness, and the possibilities of self. Since the publication of the first volume in 2018, Muholi has continued to photograph themself in a range of new international locations. Drawing on material props found in each environment, Muholi boldly explores their own image and innate possibilities as a Black individual in today’s global society, and—most important—speaks emphatically in response to contemporary and historical racisms.

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