Queercide: Campaign Against Violence Against Women – Why We Must Document
In 2012 there were 10 murders of black lesbians, gays and transgender people in South Africa. In Uganda, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill which includes the death penalty and makes LGBTI people and anyone or organisation that supports or helps them, into…
A young man and his goat – A photographic story
From a collection by Cristina Garcia Rodero, Rituales en Haiti Miami Dade College Museum of Art + Design?
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Haiti: Occasional Musings 21, Environmental cost of construction boom [Photo Essay]
The construction boom in Haiti driven by Diasporan money, UN [MINUSTAH] and government funds is destroying the local environment around the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. Hillsides are being cut away and river beds decimated to feed the huge demand for rock…
Haiti: Photo journalism or poverty porn
In the case of Workman, the idea of photo journalism as non-interventionist is serialised across the global south under a guise of non-partisanship, shooting people in distress and ‘enmeshed in political or social change’ and for his own material gain as well as satisfying ‘emotional needs’ and white privilege. It’s certainly not driven by notions of solidarity and struggle for justice but rather flowing from sentimentality and who knows what other emotions are carried behind the choice to avoid the words ‘slavery’ and describe structures of violence as ‘troubles’!
A Night of Fairytales’: An Audience With Diriye Osman
‘A Night of Fairytales’: An Audience With Diriye Osman – If you are in or around London you need to attend this event at the Poetry Cafe….. Diriye Osman is a Somali-born, British short story writer whose debut collection of…
Mo(u)rning in progress
From Inkanyiso a documentary of Mo(u)rning by Zanele Muholi © Zanele Muholi 2013 Where: Thokoza township, Johannesburg What: Three (3) days after Duduzile Zozo’s burial When: 16/07/2013 How many: 24 participants excluding taxi drivers. Who: Mostly black lesbians and gays… Camera…
Butch & Menstruation is Art
From inkanyiso photo documentary on a radical response to violence against Black lesbians by Zanele Muholi As we continue to live and survive in troubled times as black lesbians in South Africa and within the continent, where rampant hate crimes…
Another Soul Lost
I received your news, but I did not cry! Am coming But not today When we see you, I won’t cry I’ll remember you like your mothers footsteps Home is far Heaven is closer Rejoice for my sake, peaceful…
WORDS BIG AND SMALL
rings and roses vanish, fleet and pass without leaving a trace. but words are forever so, speak for this love lives on words and words alone can ink themselves deep into my heart and not rings, not roses, not…
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Mambu Badu – A New Way of Seeing [Photography]
“Mambu Badu is a photography collective founded in 2010 by Allison McDaniel, Kameelah Rasheed, and Danielle Scruggs. The collective’s mission is to find, expose, and nurture emerging self-identified woman photographers of African descent. “Mambu Badu” is an adaptation of the…
Victor Ehikhamenor – Ways of Seeing
Victor Ehikhamenor defies stereotype – a master at multi-tasking and multi-thinking and multi-creativity. He has produced, to critical acclaim, short stories, photographs, illustrations and paintings. He “needs no introduction†in the Nigerian art scene, as YNaija pointed out.
Invisible Borders: Emeka Okereke in conversation with Emmanuel Iduma
From Invisible Borders A conversation between Emeka Okereke, founder and Artistic Director of Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers’ Organization, and Emmanuel Iduma, Nigerian author and writer. The conversation took place in Libreville, Gabon where Okereke and Iduma are participating in a road trip….
Gone @ 20 – the lucky ones are not yet born!
South Africa is layered with contradictions and complexities. On the one hand, the lgbti community forms part of the progressive movement and the rainbow nation that is South Africa today. On the other, individual rights to sexual expression, sexual and gender identity are often challenged in the only African state that is praised for protecting diversities. However, there are limits to diversity, at least in the South African context. Those who transgress the boundaries of diversity often get punished in the most gruesome ways. In particular, the existence of minority groups (including wome
MO(U)RNING by Zanele Muholi
In MO(U)RNING, Muholi presents elements of her documentation that were not lost, together with new work realised in recent months. The exhibition will include new and recent photographs from her Faces and Phases series of portraits and her Being series. Her multip
The QueenDom
THE QUEENDOM BY DIRIYE OSMAN A photoshoot inspired by fairytales and royal funkiness. The photos were taken by the impressive Boris Mitkov, a young photographer based in London and the makeup was handled by the brilliant, award-winning stylist, Christelle Kedi….
Ghost Queen
GHOST QUEEN BY DIRIYE OSMAN “When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” – AUDRE LORDE Photography: BORIS MITKOV…
MO(U)RNING: Life and death, love and hate
STEVENSON is pleased to present MO(U)RNING, a solo exhibition by visual activist and photographer Zanele Muholi. For Muholi, MO(U)RNING evokes death but also suggests the cycle of life as morning follows night. Life and death, love and hate are some of the antitheses that appear…
Her Breast is Fit For Pearls
I woke up this morning and felt the need to re post this photograph - Her breast is fit for pearls, But I was not a “Diver”– Her brow is fit for thrones But I have not a crest. Her…
Zanele Muholi: Raising consciousness through art
Is their a link between the defacement of “The Spear”, the painting of  Jacob Zuma which shows his genitals and the theft of five years of Zanele Muholi’s work?  Is free expression through art or any other medium under…
Campaign to replace Zanele Muholi’s stolen photography equipment
On the 28th 26th April, Zanele returned home from Seoul, South Korea to discover that all her work between 2008 and 2012 stored on 20 hard drives and including backups had been stolen on the 20th. The thieves also stole…
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